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The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled last week that Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-era executive order closing private bars but allowing other establishments to stay open was unconstitutional and not backed by solid scientific evidence.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.