Based on a decision from the N.C. Supreme Court stemming from a Lumberton case, the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed course from a 2012 decision dealing with a challenge to Fayetteville’s privilege license tax for electronic sweepstakes operators. A unanimous three-judge panel has agreed in an opinion released this morning to send the case back to a trial court because Fayetteville’s “privilege license tax violates the Just and Equitable Tax Clause of our State’s Constitution as a matter of law.”
Among other opinions the N.C. Court of Appeals released this morning:
A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower-court ruling that the Felony Firearms Act, which restricts gun ownership among those who have been convicted of a felony, does not apply to a man who has received a pardon from the governor. The same opinion rejected the man’s attempt to have the Felony Firearms Act declared unconstitutional in its application to his case.
