- The city of Raleigh is siding with Rockingham County in a case at North Carolina’s Supreme Court dealing with a casino-related rezoning.
- Raleigh’s friend-of-the-court brief this week says nothing about the local casino debate that prompted the lawsuit. The capital city’s lawyers focused instead on the issue of legal standing.
- The brief urged North Carolina’s highest court to clear up confusion about who can file a lawsuit challenging a local government’s rezoning decisions.
North Carolina’s capital city is siding with Rockingham County in a case at the state Supreme Court. The county is asking the high court to reject a lawsuit challenging a controversial casino-related rezoning.
The court issued an order Thursday accepting a friend-of-the-court brief from the city of Raleigh.
The 24-page brief does not address the Rockingham County casino debate that prompted the lawsuit. Instead lawyers representing the capital city supported the county’s arguments that the case’s plaintiffs lacked legal standing to pursue the case…