The N.C. Supreme Court will rehear cases dealing with voter ID and statewide election maps in March.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether as many as 56,000 felons who have completed active prison terms but not finished their full sentences will remain eligible to vote in state elections.
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 @ 10:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Appeals Court Chief Judge Donna Stroud began her new term by emphasizing bringing people together after COVID shutdowns and the recent judicial elections.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In Tuesday’s 2022 midterm elections, Republican candidates came out ahead in the state’s six statewide judicial races.
Published: Saturday, December 10th, 2022 @ 1:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Drug Bust $130,000.00 worth of Fentanyl, Meth and PIlls
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 9:58 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The N.C. Supreme Court questioned lawyers on both sides of a dispute over $785 million in additional education spending tied to the Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 6:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A day before Wednesday's arguments in the Leandro case, justices voted along party lines to reject lawmakers' request to drop the plaintiffs Earls represented.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a 3-2 decision, the N.C. Supreme Court overturned a 90-year-old precedent that protected nurses from some forms of legal liability.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A statement from Amy O. Cooke, CEO of the John Locke Foundation:
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new N.C. Supreme Court decisions set a 40-year maximum prison sentence for violent juvenile offenders, regardless of the number or severity of their crimes.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Television stations have pulled a television ad targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley because of concerns about false statements involving Beasley's record.
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 11:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A ruling overturning constitutional amendments would invalidate statewide votes of the people
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ten days after throwing out North Carolina’s newly drawn congressional and legislative election maps, the state Supreme Court has produced its formal opinion in the case.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fate of two approved amendments to North Carolina’s Constitution now sits in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The court spent an hour Monday morning questioning lawyers who argued for and against the amendments.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Jean Grey Jefferson Morgan, age 83, a resident of Pinetown, NC, died Friday February 4, 2022 at RiverTrace Nursing & Rehabilitation.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 9:10 am
By: Announcements
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North Carolina’s legislative and congressional election maps now sit in the hands of the N.C. Supreme Court, after 90 minutes of oral arguments for and against the maps Wednesday morning.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court split 4-3 today while ruling against defendants in a pair of cases involving satellite-based monitoring of convicted sex offenders.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 5:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individuals to serve as Chair of the following County Boards of Elections
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 1:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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With the U.S. Supreme Court shutting the door this month on future legal action, a state Supreme Court decision will continue to dictate the University of North Carolina’s compliance with public records requests linked to sexual assaults.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 12:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You might expect that the 2020 N.C. Supreme Court elections will guarantee plenty of 4-3 rulings in the year ahead.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Voters will decide next week who should preside over North Carolina’s highest court for as long as eight years.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While much of North Carolina has shut down for business, the N.C. Supreme Court continues to issue opinions.
Published: Monday, April 20th, 2020 @ 3:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Judicial candidates on the campaign trail in North Carolina tend to avoid harsh criticism of their opponents. In contrast, written judicial opinions often feature pointed jabs.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 7:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When Cheri Beasley and Paul Newby face each other in the 2020 campaign for N.C. Supreme Court chief justice, it’s unlikely that they will spend much time bashing each other’s records.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 @ 5:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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You might expect a state Supreme Court with six Democrats and one Republican to end up with a lot of 6-1 decisions with the Republican on the losing end. That’s not been the typical scenario this year.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 @ 3:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The lone Republican on North Carolina’s Supreme Court issued three dissents in the latest batch of high-court decisions.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If party labels tell the story, Chief Justice Mark Martin could end up on the losing end of a lot of N.C. Supreme Court decisions this year.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2019 @ 6:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the heat of partisan battle, much discussion about North Carolina’s Supreme Court election focuses on the current split between the court’s Republicans and Democrats
Published: Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Democrats have traditionally used courts as political chess pieces, but Republicans are trying - mistakenly - to turn the game in their favor by making institutional changes to boost party power, experts say
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much of the conversation surrounding this year’s N.C. Supreme Court election focuses on the potential impact for the court’s partisan makeup
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson in his power struggle against the State Board of Education
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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