A state judge has dismissed a defamation case tied to last year’s Rockingham County commissioners’ election, a decision that also has the potential to close off more details about a legislative push to land three casinos in that North Carolina county and two others.
Special Superior Court Judge Hoyt Tessener did not give a detailed explanation for dismissing the lawsuit. It was filed by Craig Travis, who narrowly lost the Republican primary for a commissioner’s seat last year. Tessener’s one-page decision, filed late Friday afternoon, sided with the arguments the defendants’ attorneys made that the lawsuit failed to state a claim the court could act upon and lacked jurisdiction in the case of one defendant.
