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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger has requested a recount in the SD-28 Republican primary against challenger Sheriff Sam Page, after the race ended with one of the narrowest margins in recent North Carolina election history.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2026 @ 9:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan North Carolina Court of Appeals panel will hear oral arguments on Jan. 27 in a dispute involving appointments to the State Board of Elections.
Published: Sunday, December 21st, 2025 @ 5:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A split North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a Department of Transportation contractor does not need to foot part of the bill for a Robeson County deputy sheriff's injuries in 2019.
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 @ 10:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a nonprofit law firm “dedicated to election integrity,” sent a letter to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) on August 4 that highlighted several longstanding problems with our state’s voter rolls, affecting tens of thousands
Published: Monday, September 8th, 2025 @ 9:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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makes it more difficult for Federal court to interfere
Published: Sunday, April 13th, 2025 @ 9:10 am
By: John Steed
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registrations did not meet federal HAVA requirements
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 8:38 am
By: John Steed
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court allows vote fraud issues to be investigated
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Steed
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Most problems created by state board, but some local boards also problematic
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024 @ 11:59 am
By: John Steed
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shananigans on vote count as race with 10,000 margin election night now at 24
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 @ 7:57 am
By: John Steed
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we dodged the Allison Riggs bullet
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2024 @ 11:00 am
By: John Steed
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improperly promising how she would vote on matters coming before the court
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2024 @ 9:08 am
By: John Steed
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The state Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether the family of a man who suffered a violation of his speedy-trial constitutional right can seek money damages against the state.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2024 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislators disagreed during North Carolina’s recent round of redistricting on whether the General Assembly had to conduct a racially polarized voting analysis.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2024 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Supreme Court will take another look at a 29-year-old court case dealing with state education funding.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 12:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay to a Department of Transportation worker fired in connection with falsified bus driver recertification.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Gaston County school board is appealing the state Court of Appeals' Sept. 12 ruling upholding North Carolina's SAFE Child Act as constitutional.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 12:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On her last day as a state Court of Appeals judge, Allison Riggs voted with the majority in three cases upholding the 2019 SAFE Child Act as constitutional.
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, in one of her final acts as a state Appeals Court judge, wrote a unanimous opinion favoring WBTV in a public records dispute with the city of Charlotte.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 11:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs did not join the court for oral arguments Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 11:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One day after he was officially replaced as an associate justice on the state Supreme Court, Michael Morgan announced Tuesday that he will seek the Democrat nomination for governor in 2024.
Published: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 3:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Allison Riggs was appointed Monday to the state’s Supreme Court by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper to fill the seat vacated by N.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Morgan.
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2023 @ 9:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Riggs will have to defend the seat in 2024.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A split state Appeals Court panel ruled 2-1 against the owner of an Orange County horse farm. The owner argued that local development rules required a 30-foot buffer between her farm and a new housing development.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 5:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A state Court of Appeals panel will decide whether Charlotte should have produced city council survey results more quickly when WBTV requested those results as public records.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 3:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Orange County property owners urge the NC Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit challenging school impact fees.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 7:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper appointed North Carolina Appeals Court Judge Allison Riggs to the state Supreme Court to serve the remaining term of Justice Michael Morgan, who retired from the court this month and announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Judge Allison Riggs to serve on the North Carolina Supreme Court and Judge Carolyn Thompson to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 9:08 am
By: Governor's Office
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A split 2-1 N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Orange County might have to refund some school impact fees. A trial judge will have to determine whether fees charged for school buses and consultants' costs will lead to refunds.
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 12:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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she will have to face voters in November
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 10:54 am
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously against plaintiffs challenging removal of a Confederate monument from the Chatham County Courthouse property.
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2023 @ 7:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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along with Democrat held Supreme Court seat
Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 9:34 am
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Court of Appeals will decide in Zander v. Orange County whether the county must refund millions of dollars in school impact fees collected since 2009.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Carole Warnecki
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Gov. Roy Cooper is appointing left-of-center activist lawyer Allison Riggs to fill a vacancy on the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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