Math teachers find themselves incessantly reminding students that “this is why you need to show your work.” The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently found itself in much the same position in remanding a case so that the trial ...

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  A North Carolina Court of Appeals judge has been censured after an investigation determined that Judge Hunter Murphy’s executive assistant created a “toxic work environment” for female law clerks who worked for him. In March 2018, the Judicial Standards ...

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    The appeal of a $3 million verdict against a man who shot another man in a Concord parking lot will go down in history as the first time that the North Carolina Court of Appeals has heard oral ...

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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld the legality of a legislative session Republicans quickly called in December 2016 to push through laws that weakened the power of incoming Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The unanimous Jan. 21 decision affirmed ...

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  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to review the denial of a Johnston County man’s motion to suppress evidence, in a decision where a divided panel grappled with seemingly conflicting opinions from prior cases, and the extent ...

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  In a multi-faceted appeal of custodial responsibility for the daughter and son of a servicemember deployed to Africa, the North Carolina Court of Appeals addressed several issues of first impression arising from the Uniformed Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation. ...

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The North Carolina Court of Appeals met at the Catawba County Justice Center in Newton Nov. 14, as part of a special session. The three-judge panel heard cases from Madison and Forsyth counties. Chief Judge Linda McGee, Judge Richard Dietz ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The first day of North Carolina judicial candidacy filing attracted more than 120 people seeking seats on the bench this November. Filing began at noon June 18 for over 150 District Court or Superior Court seats, along with one ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The third and final compensation payment has been mailed to sterilization victims, marking the end of a 15-year pursuit of financial help for people who suffered under North Carolina’s eugenics program. The state Department of Administration ...

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Fake friends, like autumn leaves, are scattered everywhere, someone once said. As the foliage falls here in North Carolina (despite 80-degree weather), the subject of one state Court of Appeals opinion learned the true color of one of his ostensible ...

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