August 16, 2024
Several-high profile cases in North Carolina came to a close in the first half of the year, from a second bribery conviction against an insurance magnate beset by legal woes, to the anticlimactic withdrawal of a state Supreme Court justice's much-watched free speech suit. Here, Law360 looks at those and other notable rulings so far in North Carolina.
July 01, 2024
A North Carolina doctor who challenged the state's restrictions on abortion drug mifepristone asked the Fourth Circuit to review a district court's decision to allow certain limits to stand.
April 30, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge struck down parts of a state law Tuesday that restricts access to the abortion medication mifepristone, finding some provisions violate the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause by enacting safety regulations already considered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, such as requiring in-person prescribing, dispensing and scheduling around the drug.
February 07, 2024
The North Carolina attorney general and state Republican lawmakers battled over a physician's bid to block the state's restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone, with the attorney general arguing the limitations upset the "careful balance" the federal government has reached in regulating the drug.
January 17, 2024
North Carolina Republican lawmakers pressed a federal court Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit that alleges a state law illegally restricts an abortion drug, arguing such restrictions are within the power of states to enact.
June 22, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's elimination of the constitutional right to abortion hit like an earthquake last summer, uprooting long-standing reproductive rights, triggering state laws curbing abortion access and flooding courts with litigation. A year later, legal battles promise further shake-ups to the abortion landscape.
January 25, 2023
Drugmaker GenBioPro has launched a lawsuit against a West Virginia law that limits the use of a drug used in medication abortions, the same day a legal attack was directed at a similar North Carolina law.