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The North Carolina State Board of Elections filed court documents this week challenging Pembroke Mayor Gregory Cummings' arguments in a 2023 election protest.
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 @ 2:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former President Donald Trump filed notices of appeal on Monday, asking New York state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn the judgment in a controversial civil fraud case that totaled a stunning $454 million, including interest.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2024 @ 2:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The state Supreme Court will not take up a case involving Winston-Salem State University's 2019 decision to fire its football coach. A unanimous state Appeals Court had ruled against former coach Kienus Boulware.
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 @ 6:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg's lawyers appeared at the state Appeals Court Wednesday to battle orders linked to a $600 million court judgement against him.
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 1:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous state Court of Appeals panel has granted state law enforcement officials' request to block a lower court ruling favoring a video sweepstakes operator in a Robeson County case.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 4:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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TikTok is asking the state Court of Appeals to block a lower court order tied to an investigation from North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 11:30 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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State Supreme Court justices split on a decision to vacate a Court of Appeals ruling addressing a media outlet's "fair report privilege." The decision prompted commentary from four of the court's seven justices.
Published: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 @ 2:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte officials urge the state Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court ruling favoring a suspended firefighter.
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 4:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A split state Court of Appeals panel has agreed to block a Forsyth County trial court order that favored local video sweepstakes operators.
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 7:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Duke Health and UNC Health are battling at the state Court of Appeals over state regulators' decision to allow a new 40-bed UNC Health hospital in Durham County.
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 8:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The state Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling favoring Louisburg in a dispute over a Confederate monument removed from Main Street in 2020.
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State law enforcement leaders are asking North Carolina's second-highest court to block a Robeson County trial judge's ruling in favor of a video sweepstakes operation.
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 8:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC Court of Appeals will allow a former Pinehurst Village Council member to proceed with his open-meetings lawsuit against the village. The decision reverses a trial judge.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 5:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former top N.C. political donor Greg Lindberg is asking the state Supreme Court to block an Appeals Court ruling against him. The case is linked to breach of contract and fraud charges related to Lindberg's insurance businesses.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Coalition of Charter Schools urges the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a split 2022 state Appeals Court decision in a charter school dispute.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 5:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision allowing a fired state trooper to get his job back. Judges agreed that the State Highway Patrol lacked "just cause" to fire Trooper Joe Locklear.
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2023 @ 7:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Department of Transportation is urging the state's second-highest court to step into a contract dispute.
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 3:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers for N.C. state government urge the N.C. Court of Appeals to reject pleas for compensation from bar owners shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 5:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has removed Charlotte police officer Brentley Vinson from a lawsuit stemming from a fatal 2016 shooting.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 11:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group representing N.C. bar owners wants the state Appeals Court to revive a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 6:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Bar owners suing the governor in connection with his COVID-19 shutdown are relying on a state Appeals Court ruling in a separate case involving a shuttered racetrack.
Published: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 1:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals will release new information Aug. 1 about how its judges respond to court petitions.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals will not reconsider a New Bern eye surgeon's lawsuit challenging state certificate-of-need restrictions.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has dismissed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's certificate-of-need law.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 11:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs seeking $785 million in new state education spending are renewing their appeals to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals delivered a blow Tuesday to a lawsuit against a 2018 state law allowing some towns to sponsor charter schools. The Appeals Court vacated a trial judge’s order that would have allowed the lawsuit to move forward.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s refusal to grant cert to Judicial Watch’s challenge to an appeals court decision
Published: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 @ 8:25 am
By: Judicial Watch
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Today I made the following statement about the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the request of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s and her former Chief of Staff, Chery Mills to avoid testifying under oath about Clinton’s emails.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 1:03 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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In a 6-1 ruling, the N.C. Supreme Court has upheld the state attorney general’s hog farm “slush fund.” The ruling reverses a decision from the State Appeals Court.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 10:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A second court has blocked voter ID in North Carolina — a move policymakers and analysts denounce as riddled with substantive and procedural problems.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 11:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals determined the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office violated a Vietnam veteran’s due process rights by denying his application for a concealed handgun permit.
Published: Saturday, October 19th, 2019 @ 12:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal judge ordered North Carolina to reinstate partisan primary elections for state Court of Appeals and Supreme Court races, but left intact the part of a state law eliminating District Court and Superior Court primaries
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after a federal appeals court ruling.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take a second look at a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2011 redistricting plan, as the state made an emergency appeal to the justices to stay a trial-court order invalidating the 1st and 12th Congressional Districts
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation on Friday filed an amicus brief with the N.C. Supreme Court, urging the state justices to uphold an appeals court ruling in the Map Act case.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld as constitutional the Marriage Amendments in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The Sixth Circuit's ruling almost ensures that the United States Supreme Court will hear the issue.
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The special filing period in three judicial races closed today at noon.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections today set a special filing period for three judicial seats vacated by Chief Judge John Martin of the Court of Appeals, Superior Court Judge William Constangy (Mecklenburg), and Superior Court Judge Robert Johnson (Alamance).
Published: Thursday, July 31st, 2014 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Parents of students seeking to benefit from the state's Opportunity Scholarships program must wait for the N.C. Court of Appeals to consider a lawsuit filed on their behalf. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood denied motions made by defendants to delay his preliminary injunction preventing the schol
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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