By The Associated Press
Published: May 28,2013
A Court of Appeals judge says he wants to move up to North Carolina's highest court. Judge Bob Hunter of Morehead City announced over the weekend he's seeking the associate justice position on the state Supreme Court that will be vacated next year by Mark Martin. Martin said late last week he will run for chief justice.
By The Associated Press
Published: August 22,2012
A North Carolina appeals court defended the power of tax collectors to recalculate the returns of multi-state companies that shift assets to avoid or diminish corporate income bills.
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: December 23,2010
By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer sylvia.adcock@nc.lawyersweekly.com After narrowly losing his Court of Appeals seat to Doug McCullough, Judge Cressie Thigpen Jr. said last week that he was “open to having discussions with the governor” about filling the seat that will come open in January when Court of Appeals Judge Barbara Jackson joins the Supreme [...]
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: December 20,2010
A recount of votes requested by Judge Cressie Thigpen Jr. was completed late Monday, with the results showing that Doug McCullough is the winner of the Court of Appeals seat, with the gap between the two widening slightly. McCullough, a former Court of Appeals judge, narrowly edged out Thigpen when the second- and third-place ballots were counted in the instant-runoff election. In the 13-way race to determine the top two vote-getters, Thigpen was in first place with 20.3 percent of the vote compared to McCullough's 15.2 percent.
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: December 8,2010
In a surprise turnaround, former Court of Appeals Judge Doug McCullough has narrowly edged out Judge Cressie Thigpen Jr., apparently winning the seat. With all 100 counties reporting the results of a second round of ballot-counting, McCullough has a 5,988-vote lead over Thigpen. A spokesman for Thigpen said his campaign will ask for a recount, with a letter being delivered to the state Board of Elections this afternoon.
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: December 3,2010
Court of Appeals Judge Cressie Thigpen Jr. is maintaining his lead over challenger Doug McCullough as workers at county elections boards across the state continue to count second- and third-place votes to determine the winner of the seat that went up for grabs when Judge James A. Wynn Jr. was confirmed to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. As of Thursday evening, elections officials in 52 of North Carolina's 100 counties had completed their counting. But state elections board officials said they didn't have a good breakdown on which counties were reporting, and it would be impossible to project a winner.
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: November 5,2010
By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer sylvia.adcock@nc.lawyersweekly.com In a year when dissatisfied voters around the nation and state tossed out incumbents, North Carolina’s Court of Appeals judges fended off their challengers, including one who proved stiff competition to a veteran judge. That contest – the most closely watched of any of the appellate court races – [...]
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: November 4,2010
In a year when dissatisfied voters around the nation ands state tossed out incumbents, North Carolina's Court of Appeals judges fended off their challengers, including one who proved stiff competition to a veteran judge. That contest - the most closely watched of any of the appellate court races - pitted Court of Appeals Judge Rick Elmore (pictured left), an eight-year veteran of the court and former defense attorney in Greensboro, against Steven Walker, who serves as clerk to Supreme Court Justice Edward Thomas Brady.
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: October 22,2010
Stan Hammer Attorney with Wyatt Early Harris Wheeler, High Point J.D., Campbell University Website: hammerforjudge.com Q: What makes you the most qualified for this job? A: As an attorney I possess a unique set of skills. I have an incisive grasp of trial practice and appellate rules as a litigator; consensus-building skills as a [...]
By Sylvia Adcock
Published: October 22,2010
Pamela Vesper Auditor/investigator for the N.C. Real Estate Commission (leave of absence) J.D., Tulane University Website: votevesper.com Q: What makes you the most qualified for this job? A: I am proud to be unaffiliated with any particular political party, and this reflects the basic tenets of what will be my judicial philosophy. I believe [...]
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State v. Boyd We reverse for the reasons stated in Judge Stroud’s dissent: Since there was overwhelming evidence of confinement and restraint, defendant has not shown that, absent the instruction on removal, the jury probably would have returned a different verdict.
Halifax Regional Medical Center, Inc. v. Brown Where the plaintiff-hospital and the third-party defendant-medical practice were not in a joint venture, the practice’s termination of the defendant-doctor’s employment did not excuse his performance under his contract with the hospital.
King v. North Carolina Department of Commerce Despite petitioner’s testimony that he did not believe $60 per week was enough to compensate him for the wear and tear that would be caused to his personal vehicle by a 212-mile roundtrip commute to work, the respondent-agency could find that plaintiff failed to show he had good cause to resign when the respondent-employer stopped providing vehicles to its employees and instead started paying for gas plus $60 per week for wear and tear to the employees’ personal vehicles.
