UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Defendant.
Case No. 5:12-cv-557-D
The Court shall retain jurisdiction of this action for the purposes specified in Section V(A) until July 1, 2021 unless:
(1) the Parties jointly ask the Court to terminate the Agreement before July 1, 2021. If the State has substantially complied with the Agreement before that date, the United States shall not unreasonably decline to join the State in a motion to terminate the Agreement early; or
(2) the United States disputes that the State is in substantial compliance with the Agreement as of July 1, 2021. If so, the United States shall inform the Court and the State by March 31, 2021 that it disputes substantial compliance, and the Court may schedule further proceedings as appropriate. In any such proceedings, the burden shall be on the State to demonstrate substantial compliance.
Executed this 1st day of October
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
G. NORMAN ACKER III
Acting United States Attorney
Eastern District of North Carolina
JOSHUA B. ROYSTER
Assistant United States Attorney
Chief, Civil Division
Eastern District of North Carolina
PAMELA S. KARLAN
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
/s/
REBECCA B. BOND
Chief
Disability Rights Section
Civil Rights Division
ANNE S. RAISH
Principal Deputy Chief
Disability Rights Section
Civil Rights Division
ELIZABETH S. WESTFALL
Deputy Chief
Disability Rights Section
Civil Rights Division
JULIA M. GRAFF
H. JUSTIN PARK
Trial Attorneys
Disability Rights Section
Civil Rights Division
Executed on this 19th day of October 2020.
FOR THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
/s/ Mandy K Cohen
MANDY K. COHEN
Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services