Coates’ Canons NC Local Government Law

Does your job require you to know the ins and outs of HIPAA? Are you a HIPAA Privacy Officer within a North Carolina local health department or state agency? Is reading about medical confidentiality in your free time your idea of fun? If yes, then welcome! Today I am introducing a new series on the Coates’ Canons blog titled “HIPAA Hot Takes!” Each post in this ser...

This post is Part 2 of a multi-part series. (See Part 1 here). For a more detailed explanation and legal analysis of the issues discuss...

Counties and municipalities across North Carolina are currently finalizing their FY 2026-27 budgets. For some local governments, that process has been complicated by Senate Bill 889 (SB 889), which would temporarily delay implementation of certain pro...

Two years ago I blogged about the first appellate opinion in North Carolina to take a serious look at what counts as a “tourism-related” expenditure for purposes of local occupancy taxes. The case was Costanzo v. Currituck ...

Each municipality (city, town, and village) in North Carolina has its own particular form of government, initially set out in the municipal charter and subject to change by local acts of the General Assembly and local ordinances adopted by the governing board of the municipality. Dating back to the mid-1950s, the School of Government has captured and cataloged the form o...