North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats Friday, declaring that state courts had authority to throw out lines engineered to secure a long-term Republican advantage in ...

Tagged with: Redistricting

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 ...

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The North Carolina Judicial Branch has announced that Grant Buckner has been named as the court’s 17th clerk.  Buckner has long been a fixture at the Supreme Court, having established the framework and jurisdiction for its Office of Administrative Counsel, ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A trial judge’s 2020 order removing an elected court clerk from the job in a central North Carolina county was vacated Tuesday by a state appeals court, which raised procedural and constitutional questions about the sanction. The ...

Tagged with: Court of Appeals

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, ...

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Cheslie Kryst, a Charlotte lawyer who became the first attorney to ever win the Miss USA pageant, has died at the age of 30, her family announced in a statement on Jan. 30. Kryst was an attorney with Poyner Spruill ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden strongly affirmed Thursday that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, declaring such historic representation is “long overdue” and promising to announce his choice by the end of February. ...

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court as he prepares to quickly deliver on his ...

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

RALEIGH (AP) — The end of appeals by two insurance providers fighting how North Carolina’s health department decided who would run its new Medicaid managed-care initiative means legal challenges over the awarding of the contracts are now over. The Court ...

Tagged with: Medicaid

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The long-running case of a former deep-sea treasure hunter marking his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has hit yet another roadblock. Research ...

Tagged with: jail