The North Carolina Supreme Court will not set aside its recent ruling upholding a defendant’s conviction in a case related to marijuana odor. Nor will the court hold new oral arguments in that case or a related case that has not yet been resolved.
North Carolina’s winter weather threat has prompted the state Appeals Court to postpone oral arguments in a dispute over state elections board appointments.
Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr is asking the state’s second-highest court to schedule oral arguments as its considers his “fair elections” lawsuit. The Court of Appeals is considering Orr’s case after a three-judge trial court panel ruled against Orr in June 2024.
Had Democrats succeeded with a 2021 plan to rewrite state Supreme Court recusal rules, Justice Anita Earls might have been disqualified from the recent Leandro hearing.
The long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit will return to the N.C. Supreme Court for oral arguments on Aug. 31. An earlier court order says a decision in the case will "be filed upon a date to be chosen in the Court's discretion."
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to extend oral arguments in next week’s redistricting case by 50%. Instead of the customary 60 minutes for all arguments, supporters and opponents of the state’s new congressional and legislative election maps will get a total of 90 minutes to make their cases. State courts have consolidated two redistricting...
Lawyers supporting and opposing North Carolina’s new election maps will take their arguments to the N.C. Supreme Court on Feb. 2. The court has set that date for a virtual session of oral arguments. The arguments are tied to multiple legal challenges of the state’s new congressional and legislative election maps. Critics of the election...
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