North Carolina’s capital city is siding with Rockingham County in a case at the state Supreme Court. The county is asking the high court to reject a lawsuit challenging a controversial casino-related rezoning.
The court issued an order Thursday accepting a friend-of-the-court brief from the city of Raleigh.
The 24-page brief does not address the Rockingham County casino debate that prompted the lawsuit. Instead lawyers representing the capital city supported the county’s arguments that the case’s plaintiffs lacked legal standing to pursue the case.
“Raleigh is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States,” the city’s lawyers wrote.
