Publications

THE BIGGEST STORY in higher education legislation in the 2000 session of the North Carolina General As- sembly was the enactment of the Michael K. Hooker Higher Education Facilities Financing Act; it authorized, upon approval of the state’s voters in November 2000, the issuance of $2.5 billion of general obligation bonds for capital improvements at The University of North Carolina (UNC) and $...

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY enacted no bold new initiatives to improve public education in 2000. Instead it continued to support previously established efforts to improve both employee and student accountability, to recruit and retain teachers, and to target resources toward special populations, including students with limited proficiency in English, small school systems, and low-wealth school...

Discusses a U.S. Court of Appeals case that struck down previous cases that upheld against Commerce Clause challenges various local government arrangements that required municipal solid waste to be collected by a single hauler or disposed of in a designated facility. In Huish Detergents, Inc. v. Warren County the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided such an arrangement imposed a flow...

Discusses a set of rules established by the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and the Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act to "reconcile" multiple child support orders entered by different courts with respect to a parent's obligation to support a parciular child, children, or family, and to recognize one as the controlling order with respect to a parent's duty to support a...