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Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi

Civil rights group files federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s new anti-rioting law

RALEIGH, N.C. — A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the North Carolina law passed this year that imposes stricter penalties for rioting.

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina lawsuit challenges House Bill 40, which would increase penalties for certain existing rioting charges and create new offenses related to rioting, among other provisions.

The civil rights lawsuit seeks to halt enforcement of “plainly unconstitutional portions” of the law, according to a news release.

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