JURIST - North carolina

On May 18, 2012, Vermont became the first US state to ban hydraulic fracking when Governor Peter Shumlin signed Bill H. 464 into law. Hydraulic fracking is a method used by many major oil companies to extract natural gas and obtain shale oil and gas by using an extremely pressurized mixture of water....... [more]

On May 8, 2012, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage, bringing the number of states with constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage to thirty-one. Since then, Maine, Maryland and Washington have voted to legalize same-sex marriage. In April 2....... [more]

North Carolina on Friday announced plans to appeal a ruling finding "Choose Life" license plates unconstitutional. Judge James Fox of the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in December that "he State's offering a 'Choose Life' license plate in the absence of a pro-ch....... [more]

North Carolina Judge Gregory Weeks ruled Thursday that racial discrimination played a role in jury selection that secured the death sentences of Tilmon Golphin, Christina Walters and Quintel Augustine, commuting their sentences. Under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act (RJA), individuals who have....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled Friday that North Carolina may not offer specialty pro-life license plates without offering a pro-choice alternative. In a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (AC....... [more]

On December 2, 2005, Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1000th person executed since the US reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The use of capital punishment had been de facto banned for 4 years after the US Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia before the Court reaffirmed its constitutionality in....... [more]

On July 26, 2011, the North Carolina House of Representatives overrode the veto of Governor Beverly Perdue on a bill that mandated a 24 hour waiting period before an abortion. The bill also required that patients view an ultrasound of the fetus prior to abortion procedures being performed. Several o....... [more]

The North Carolina General Assembly on Monday voted to override the veto of Governor Beverly Perdue regarding legislation that will essentially nullify the state's Racial Justice Act (RJA). Signed into law by Perdue in 2009, the RJA allows an individual sentenced to death to present evidence to pro....... [more]

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state. Fracking is the process of injecting a high pressured mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break through rock and release oil and natural....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Lynne Marie Kohm of Regent University School of Law says that the November 2012 elections will involve historic referendums in several states on legislation related to same-sex marriage...The legislative and democratic events surrounding marriage have been anything but unevent....... [more]

On June 18, 2011, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill requiring all employers with 25 or more employees to check the immigration status of their new hires using the E-Verify system. In April 2011, the Indiana House of Representatives had approved a "watered-down" version of Ari....... [more]