State Supreme Court takes second COVID bar shutdown case
Posted on AllSides June 6th, 2024
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The North Carolina Supreme Court will consider at least one of two pending cases related to Gov. Roy Cooper’s 2020 shutdown of bars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court issued an order Thursday granting the governor’s September 2023 request to take up the case Howell v. Cooper. The order arrived nine days after the governor asked the high court to take up a second case brought by the North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association. Justices have not yet acted on the second case.