Attorney General Roy Cooper wins the latest round in the long-running legal battle over his 2000 election campaign against Republican opponent Dan Boyce.
Boyce and his law firm contend Cooper ran a “false and fraudulent” television ad during the campaign, in which Cooper won his first term as attorney general.
A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in Cooper’s favor this morning in a procedural dispute. The ruling does not cover the substance of Boyce’s charge.
