N.C. Supreme Court

Election season this year has been like no other. Americans are still raising questions about the presidential race, and control of the US Senate hangs in the balance of one state, Georgia, as it goes into a runoff this year. North Carolinians are facing an additional election anomaly in the…

North Carolina is in the midst of the election season. While much conversation is focusing on executive elections like president and governor or legislative races like those for the General Assembly, one elected branch of government in this state is often overlooked: the judiciary. In North Carolina, the citizens elect…

On Thursday, Sept. 10, the Federalist Society hosted a forum with the candidates for the three contested seats this year in the North Carolina Supreme Court. JLF’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Donna Martinez, moderated the event. The event began with introductions from all the candidates…

As the date for oral arguments on North Carolina’s Map Act approaches in the N.C. Supreme Court, plaintiffs attorneys have released a video showing a neighborhood affected by the act. The video shows a number of houses, both one-story and two-story, in a cul-de-sac. Most are quite…

The N.C. Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s ruling and upheld the state’s ban on Internet sweepstakes. In a unanimous opinion, Justice Robin Hudson said that the General Assembly in its attempt to ban the machines was regulating conduct, and not protected free speech. Sweepstakes companies,…

Does it strike anyone else as odd that Gov. Bev Perdue is rescinding the same executive order she issued regarding judicial appointments? Well, she’s not really rescinding it. She’s exempting herself from it. She apparently thinks that incoming Gov.-elect Pat McCrory and future governors should be bound by the…

Sorry counties, but you can’t adopt an “adequate public facilities ordinance” as a means of requiring residential developers to pay for new schools. The N.C. Supreme Court, in a split decision, said on Friday that counties can‘t use their zoning powers to adopt such a requirement. The court also said…