Records printed from a third-party server are business records and not hearsay, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled July 21. The unpublished opinion affirms the conviction of a man who burglarized a church and left a paper trail in ...

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A ruling of first impression out of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has affirmed the long reach of a unique state law – and one of the strongest in the country – that gives individuals a right to sue over allegations of animal cruelty. That power is typically reserved for prosecutors and other government agents.

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Much like The Man Upstairs, the appellate courts giveth, and the appellate courts taketh away. Last July, Sidebar spread word of the case of Thomas Campbell, accused of stealing audio equipment from a church in Cleveland County. Campbell claims that ...

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A former Albemarle police detective who sued the city for wrongful discharge will receive nothing for his “unsupported speculation,” according to a June 2 North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling. According to the COA’s unpublished opinion in Pope v. City ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Republicans want candidates for North Carolina appellate court judgeships to reveal their party affiliation on the ballot. The House scheduled floor debate Thursday to shift races for state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals back to being ...

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A defendant in a gruesome murder case appealed his 2013 conviction recently, claiming his life sentence is bogus because he didn’t receive a fair trial. The North Carolina Court of Appeals, citing a psychologist’s reports of drug use, possible mental ...

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A North Carolina appeals court says it would be "unconscionable" for a woman to be evicted from public housing in Goldsboro because a babysitting friend was caught in possession of marijuana.

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Democratic Party’s governing board has endorsed former Court of Appeals Judge John Arrowood for a vacant seat on the intermediate-level appeals court in a statewide election that’s attracted 19 candidates. The party’s Executive Council ...

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In a recent decision, North Carolina Court of Appeals elected to follow the First Restatement of Judgments instead of the more recent Second Restatement on the issue of collateral estoppel, potentially opening the issue to Supreme Court review. Matt Sawchak, ...

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A woman who claimed that a Charlotte anesthesiologist did permanent damage to the nerves in her leg will not be able to sue the hospital where the surgery took place because she couldn’t show that the doctor was an agent ...

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