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NC Supreme Court takes up sex abuse claim time extension now
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court will accelerate appeals over the constitutionality of a state law that gave adults with child sexual abuse claims another two years to seek civil damages. A majority of justices agreed this week t o hear the case of three former Gaston County student-athletes who are suing the […]
NC groups, voters urge justices to avoid redistricting case
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina advocacy groups and voters who this year persuaded state courts to overturn the legislature’s congressional redistricting plan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to avoid hearing arguments on whether such courts must be curtailed in reviewing U.S. House maps. Attorneys representing the state also joined with outside lawyers […]
NC Supreme Court won’t hear case of Rev. Barber’s conviction
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has refused to hear the appeal of a civil rights leader who was convicted of trespassing during a 2017 demonstration inside the Legislative Building. The state Supreme Court announced on Friday that it had denied the request of the Rev. William Barber II of Goldsboro for the justices […]
Court mulls ruling that blocked NC Rep. Cawthorn challenge
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday questioned whether a lower court got it right when it blocked a challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy by voters who cited a section of the Constitution addressing insurrection as disqualifying him. Three judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in […]
Ruling permitting more NC offenders to vote blocked for now
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has temporarily blocked the enforcement of last week’s ruling by trial judges that declared people convicted of felonies can vote while serving their probation or parole. The Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued a stay of the ruling, which struck down a 1973 state law that lays […]
Red-light camera program in Pitt Co. struck down
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina city’s red-light camera program is unconstitutional because too little of the money it generates through penalties ends up with the local school system, the state Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday. An appellate panel decided unanimously that Greenville’s funding framework violates the state constitution’s directive that the “clear proceeds&[...]
NC retiree health insurance case left unsettled by top court
RALEIGH (AP) — A decadelong legal fight over whether retired government workers were wronged when North Carolina stopped offering them a more generous level of premium-free health insurance remained unsettled after Friday’s ruling by the state Supreme Court. A majority of justices did agree that the former state employees and teachers had a “constitutionally protected […]
NC officer shooting plea stands despite nameless indictment
RALEIGH (AP) — A 2014 plea agreement by a man arrested 16 years after the fatal shooting of a police officer should stand, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday while reversing a lower court decision that declared it should be canceled because an indictment was defective. The justices overturned the 2020 ruling of the […]
NC 2nd-chance redistricting finalized; maps now go to court
RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina legislature on Thursday completed new redistricting plans that Republicans contend will meet fairness directives of state justices who struck down previously approved maps as illegal partisan gerrymanders that penalized Democrats. A map for the state’s 14 U.S. House seats approved by the General Assembly was touted by the GOP […]
N.C. Supreme Court overturns conviction over racial bias in picking jury
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned the robbery conviction of a Black man on Friday, determining that prosecutors wrongly blocked a potential juror from his trial based on racial bias. The 4-3 ruling marks the first time in state history, according to legal authorities, that a criminal conviction was invalidated because of a […]
N.C. justices pepper lawyers in redistricting case
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Supreme Court justices and attorneys volleyed Wednesday over whether the court has authority to throw out new congressional and legislative districts simply because they comfortably favor Republicans in a state otherwise closely divided politically. With oral arguments over, the justices will now decide whether redistricting plans approved by the GOP-controlled [&he[...]
N.C. justices won’t step aside in redistricting case
RALEIGH (AP) — Three North Carolina Supreme Court justices said Monday they won’t step aside from hearing a blockbuster redistricting case this week, rejecting requests from lawyers covering both sides of the litigation to recuse themselves. In separate written orders, Associate Justices Anita Earls, Sam Ervin IV and Phil Berger Jr. denied the recusal motions […]
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