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The Joint Legislative Committee on Judicial Redistricting and Reform met for the second time yesterday. For a large part of the meeting, they heard Administrative Office of the Courts’ reports…
Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson reports on remarks made Saturday by North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin: North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin isn’t happy with the way state…
George Leef explains for Forbes readers why a U.S. Supreme Court case involving North Carolina dentists and teeth whiteners is attracting attention from other fields. Competition – everyone loves it,…
Do licensing regulations in the legal profession protect consumers against incompetence? Or are they just your garden-variety anticompetitive measures intended to keep prices high? In my latest Forbes article, I…
Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending decision on ObamaCare, Jim McTague tells us in the latest Barron’s that “conventional wisdom both at the Bar Association and on Wall Street is…
The headline above is clearly the take away point from the article in today’s Raleigh News and Observer about calls for government licensing of music therapists being pushed by the…
The e-mail scandal dubbed Climategate raises serious questions about the science used to justify alarmist global warming policies. John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato…
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law recently won their lawsuit that argued the mandatory $50 fee imposed on NC lawyers to support the taxpayer financing system for judicial campaigns…
As state lawmakers file bills and prepare for budget work, John Locke Foundation experts speak out on topics likely to generat debate this year on Jones Street. President John Hood…
JLF head man John Hood gives his take on the Bar Association debates, focusing on the McCrory Perdue face-off: Perdue still has important advantages. Having spent the better part of…
The Winston-Salem Journal’s James Romoser does a good job writing up yesterday’s N.C. Bar Association debates. According to Romoser, U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan once again refers to the federal…
? The candidates for governor and U.S. Senate appear at a Bar Association forum on Saturday, with Pat McCrory and Beverly Perdue talking mostly about education and criminal justice issues…