RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It looks like there will be a June 7 primary for North Carolina Supreme Court if a conventional election for the seat remains in place because at least three people have now filed to run. Superior Court ...
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Read More »GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s first African-American chief justice has retired from a Greensboro law firm. The Brooks, Pierce law firm said in a statement Monday that Henry Frye has retired from the practice. Frye has been with the ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina residents who want to run for Congress already know they can file as candidates next week. Now the same goes for the state Supreme Court following a court ruling. The State Board of Elections ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether legislators can strip away a key benefit for low-paid teachers — job security rules in place for 45 years. The case involves a 2013 law passed by ...
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A group of property owners who are beating the North Carolina Department of Transportation in a high-stakes fight over the Map Act have asked the Supreme Court to put an end to the case.
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Halifax County’s chief district court judge became the first North Carolina judge to be publicly reprimanded since a controversial 2013 law relieved the state’s Judicial Standards Commission of the power to issue judicial reprimands and instead vested that power in ...
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Read More »WHITEVILLE (AP) — A three-judge panel planned to consider consider Friday whether a 70-year-old inmate was wrongfully convicted nearly four decades ago of killing a mother and daughter in North Carolina. The judges were appointed by the state Supreme Court ...
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Read More »CHARLOTTE (AP) — Three candidates for North Carolina’s Supreme Court say groups with outside money are launching negative ads to try to influence the judicial election. Associate Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson says attack ads undermine the court system. Hudson ...
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A Wednesday night candidate forum highlighted the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt tensions between current Chief Justice Mark Martin and Judge Ola Lewis, a superior court judge in Brunswick County who is vying for Martin’s seat. Martin was elevated from associate ...
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The eight candidates seeking election to four seats on the state Supreme Court seem to largely agree on at least one thing: The court has been issuing far too few opinions in recent years, and that needs to change. According ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
