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A new report from the group People’s Parity Project Action warns that rulings like Cunningham v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. are in jeopardy, because of the North Carolina’s Supreme Court’s rightward shift.
When the N.C. Supreme Court voted last year to overturn a 90-year-old precedent involving nurses’ legal liability, just three of the seven justices endorsed the change. Defendants in the case now hope the court will step back into the dispute to clarify the impact of a three-judge majority opinion. Plaintiffs in the case filed paperwork Thursday urging the court to stand by its 2022 decision.
North Carolina’s constitution has protected people’s rights to the “enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor” for more than 150 years. But the state’s highest court continues to wrestle with the form that protection should take. That was a key message in N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr.’s May 10 presentation to the Bastiat Society of Raleigh.