State Supreme Court Justice Michael Morgan's final opinion day featured a 183-page opinion defending a death penalty verdict, a dissent in a castle doctrine case, and a vote with Republican colleagues to fight back environnentalists' challenge of a mining quarry's state permit.
Published: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 2:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Just three of seven N.C. Supreme Court justices voted last year to overturn a 90-year precedent involving nurses' protection from legal liability. The absence of a clear four-vote majority is prompting new legal action.
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 12:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. says the state's highest court continues to wrestle with property rights protection tied to the "fruits of their own labor" clause in the state constitution.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 4:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House's proposed budget would raise the mandatory retirement age from 72 to 76 for members of the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court reconsidered Wednesday a case dealing with the state's challenged 2018 voter ID law. Justices could throw out a ruling that blocked the law from taking effect.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2023 @ 7:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The full N.C. Supreme Court has agreed that Justice Phil Berger Jr. can participate in the rehearing of the Holmes v. Moore voter identification case.
Published: Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 @ 4:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The full N.C. Supreme Court is likely to rehear the Holmes v. Moore voter ID case on Wednesday. ID critics had asked two Republican justices to recuse themselves.
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 @ 12:17 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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The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Oct. 3 in a case involving voter ID, followed by an Oct. 4 hearing on disputed statewide election maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 12:25 am
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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N.C. Supreme Court Justices Phil Berger Jr. and Anita Earls have turned down requests that they recuse themselves from the Leandro education funding case.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 6:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top N.C. legislative leaders have filed arguments against a court-imposed congressional map, even though they want to drop their appeal against the map.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 1:42 pm
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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In a party-line 4-3 split, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed to hear a redistricting dispute as early as Oct. 3.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unlike earlier recusal requests of Supreme Court justices, the case for Earls to remove herself is clear and robust
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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both conservatives but which one is better candidate?
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 @ 9:58 am
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law. The high court’s decision removes the case from the state Court of Appeals and places it on a faster track for final resolution.
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Calls to remove North Carolina Supreme Court justices from cases are (mostly) wrong
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 10:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earls’ campaign statements go right up to the edge of requiring recusal
Published: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative defendants and the N.C. Department of Justice are defending North Carolina’s voter ID law before the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law are fighting a request to remove a Republican state Supreme Court justice from hearing the case.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in a case challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law are rejecting a proposal to move the case to the state Supreme Court.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of North Carolina’s latest voter ID law want the N.C. Supreme Court to consider their lawsuit.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court Justices Tamara Barringer and Phil Berger Jr. confirmed late Friday afternoon that they will take part in a high-profile case involving two challenged amendments to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing the state NAACP defend N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls in their latest filing at the state’s high court.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 8:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has jumped into the state’s legal battle over new election maps. The high court has shut down candidate filing and delayed all state primary elections until May 17.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 10:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Opponents of North Carolina’s new election maps want the state Supreme Court to disqualify Justice Phil Berger Jr. from hearing their case.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 7:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Three former N.C. Supreme Court justices, all Republicans, are urging the current court not to move forward with forcibly removing colleagues from a high-profile voter ID case.
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 8:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If the state Supreme Court decides to remove two Republican justices from hearing a high-profile case involving voter ID, the court also should remove Democratic Justice Anita Earls. That’s according to a new motion filed Wednesday in the case.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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