North Carolina’s highest court has sided with Currituck County in an occupancy tax dispute, upheld convictions in two criminal cases involving marijuana odor, affirmed 2023 Duke Energy rate hikes challenged by the state attorney general, censured a Wake County judge, and ruled that a convicted murderer loses his right of direct appeal to the high court once he’s off death row.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals used the case of an armed felon Friday to highlight a larger issue involving challenges to trial judges’ decisions.
A federal Appeals Court will not hold an initial en banc hearing in a redistricting dispute involving two state Senate districts in northeastern North Carolina.
Three months after its decision, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has revealed the names of judges who ruled against colleague Jefferson Griffin in December during the early stages of his election dispute. Chief Judge Chris Dillon and Judges Tobias Hampson and April Wood issued a unanimous Dec. 10 order against Griffin. Dillon and Wood are Republicans. Hampson is a Democrat.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has rejected the State Board of Elections’ request to take over a legal dispute involving the election between Republican Jefferson Griffin and Democrat Allison Riggs. By a 4-2 vote Thursday, the high court agreed to leave the case with the state Court of Appeals.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin urged that court Wednesday not to bypass North Carolina’s second-highest court to address Griffin’s election dispute. The State Board of Elections and Democratic candidate Allison Riggs support moving the case directly to the high court.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to expedite its timeline for considering his challenges of thousands of ballots cast in the Nov. 5 election.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide soon whether to take N.C. cases dealing with sales taxes and DWI prosecutions.
In granting a new trial for a convicted murderer, the court's four Democrats opened the door for more legal mischief.
Democratic and Republican justices split over whether to order a new trial in a brutal murder case.
Just one of this year's N.C. Supreme Court cases features contrasting opinions from the Democratic chief justice and the lone Republican.
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