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State Chief Justice Paul Newby, above, appointed special Superior Court Judge Matthew T. Houston to the North Carolina Business Court this week. (Associated Press file)
Feb 19, 2025

Newby fills opening on NC Business Court

RALEIGH — Chief Justice Paul Newby has named a special Superior Court judge to the North Carolina Business Court. The appointment of Judge Matthew T. Houston was effective Monday, Feb. […]

State Chief Justice Paul Newby has named chief District Court judges in the 9th and 43rd judicial districts.
Dec 6, 2024

Newby elevates two to chief District Court judge

Two new chief District Court judges have been appointed by state Chief Justice Paul Newby. Judge Donna Forga has been named chief District Court judge for the 43rd Judicial District, […]

Anti- and pro-abortion protestors argue during competing rallies June 24, 2022, outside a Planned Parenthood of Missouri office in St. Louis. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch file)
Nov 5, 2024

High court races grow costly amid abortion debate

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Abortion and reproductive rights have been central to the races for president and governor in North Carolina, a battleground state that has more moderate abortion restrictions […]

Wisconsin Chief Justice Annette Ziegler, above, has said that all seven of the state Supreme Court's justices were ‘united behind this investigation to identify the source of the apparent leak’ of a draft order saying that the court would take a case brought by Planned Parenthood. (Associated Press file)
Aug 13, 2024

Police decline to investigate state Supreme Court’s abortion order leak

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Capitol Police have declined to investigate the leak of a state Supreme Court abortion order in June citing a conflict of interest, but the court’s chief […]

Good ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court are not enough, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday at the 2024 9th Circuit Judicial Conference at Sacramento, Calif. There also must be means to enforce them. (Associated Press)
Jul 29, 2024

Kagan: SCOTUS ethics code needs enforcement system

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a […]

Cheri Beasley speaks at an election night event in Raleigh hosted by the North Carolina Democratic Party after winning its nomination for the U.S. Senate seat May 17, 2022. (Associated Press file)
Jun 24, 2024

VIDEO: Beasley understands value of powerful examples

Cheri Beasley rose from practicing as a Cumberland County public defender to become the first African American woman to serve as North Carolina's chief justice.

Rob Sharpe Jr. has served as North Carolina’s capital defender since 2015.
May 17, 2024

VIDEO: Sharpe stands in front line of capital case defense

As North Carolina's capital defender, Rob Sharpe Jr. ensures indigent defendants in death penalty cases receive a fair trial.

Having already served as chief and associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and a judge on the state Court of Appeals, Mark Martin’s latest legal accomplishment is serving as dean of High Point University’s soon-to-open law school.
May 16, 2024

VIDEO: 5 Questions With … Mark Martin

Former state Chief Justice Mark Martin has transitioned to the role of founding dean, shaping future lawyer-leaders at High Point University’s Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law.

As the 70th anniversary of the event comes this week, technology will re-create the voice of then-Chief Justice Earl Warren as he reads the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1954. (Associated Press file)
May 16, 2024

Technology gives voice to Brown decision

NEW YORK — Seventy years ago Friday, no one outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building heard it when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic Brown v. Board of […]

Having already served as chief and associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and a judge on the state Court of Appeals, Mark Martin’s latest legal accomplishment is serving as dean of High Point University’s soon-to-open law school.
May 13, 2024

VIDEO: Martin discusses his leadership vision for High Point Law

Mark Martin, a former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, outlines his approach as the incoming dean of the Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law.


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