RALEIGH (AP) Hundreds filed for congressional, legislative and county positions Feb. 12 as the North Carolina candidate period opened, but not before yet another court ruling was issued from reams of pending litigation seeking to alter more districts or filing dates. ...

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Cooper v. Berger (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-006-18, 74 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) (Mark Martin, C.J., joined by Barbara Jackson, J., dissenting) (Paul Newby, J., dissenting separately) Appealed from a three-judge panel of the Superior Court in Wake County. N.C. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina General Assembly has given final approval to Republican legislation that would make elections for local court judgeships officially partisan races again. The House agreed March 8 to slight changes made by the Senate to the ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A candidate for North Carolina governor wants the other announced Democrat in the race to hold several debates with him before the March 15 primary. Ken Spaulding of Durham on Thursday called on Attorney General Roy ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Residents in some of North Carolina’s largest cities are choosing their mayors and council members, or whittling down the number of candidates for November. Municipalities in nearly two dozen counties — many of them in urban ...

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Wright v. State of North Carolina (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-01-0556, 41 pp.) (Wynn, J.) No. 14-1329, May 27, 2015; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In this lawsuit challenging a state law redrawing electoral districts of the ...

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The latest batch of polling is out for North Carolina’s 2014 judicial elections, and it shows a clear pattern emerging. The vast majority of North Carolina’s voters have absolutely no idea who any of these candidates are, or the slightest ...

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This is the second in a series of stories about North Carolina’s process for choosing Court of Appeals judges and Supreme Court justices. The unprecedented influx of outside money into judicial elections in North Carolina, and other states, has raised ...

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This is the first in series of stories about North Carolina’s process for choosing Court of Appeals judges and Supreme Court justices. Our next installment will examine how North Carolina’s process compares to that of other states. With all the ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson survived a primary in which outside conservative groups spent nearly $1 million trying to defeat her. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting Tuesday, Hudson was leading with 43 percent. ...

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