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Federal Appeals Court rules for NC government in Blackbeard video case
A federal Appeals Court has ruled in favor of North Carolina’s state government in the decade-old copyright dispute linked to Blackbeard’s sunken flagship.
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Appeals Court rejects challenge of law against teaching bombmaking
A split federal Appeals Court panel has upheld a law that bans a person from teaching someone else to make or use a bomb with plans of committing a federal violent crime.
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Federal Appeals Court appears skeptical of reopened Blackbeard copyright case
A federal Appeals Court panel questioned Wednesday whether a 10-year-old copyright lawsuit over images of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship could move forward. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that North Carolina state government had immunity from the suit.
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SCOTUS rejects appeal from cop killer Golphin
The nation’s highest court will not take up the case of a North Carolina man serving a life sentence without parole in the murder of two law enforcement officers in 1997. The US Supreme Court rejected Kevin Salvador Golphin’s appeal along with dozens of other cases Tuesday. Justices offered no commentary about the decision.
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Trial court hearing scheduled Feb. 7 in NC Supreme Court dispute
Wake County’s top Superior Court judge has scheduled a Feb. 7 hearing in Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s lawsuits against the State Board of Elections. Griffin challenges more than 65,000 ballots cast in his election against appointed incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs.
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Honest Elections Project backs Griffin at 4th Circuit
The right-of-center Honest Elections Project is backing Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin at the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The group filed a brief Wednesday supporting Griffin’s argument that his election dispute belongs in a North Carolina courtroom rather than federal court.
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State Appeals Court stays GOP challenge of 60K ballots in election dispute
The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday in Republican groups’ lawsuit challenging more than 60,000 ballots cast in the Nov. 5 election. The court order arrived as GOP state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin pursues a separate legal action challenging the same ballots. Election officials requested the stay in Kivett v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, a suit filed on Dec. 31 by the Wake County and North Carolina Republican Party organizations, the Republican National Committee, and two individual voters.
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Riggs, Griffin spar over proper forum for NC Supreme Court election dispute
The two candidates in North Carolina’s recent Supreme Court election disagree about the proper forum for resolving a legal dispute involving the election. Democratic candidate Allison Riggs and the North Carolina Democratic Party filed briefs Wednesday evening with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Both made the case for federal review of the election dispute.
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Griffin emphasizes overseas voters with no photo ID in latest NC Supreme Court filing
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin emphasized in his latest court filing the 5,509 overseas voters who provided no photo identification when they cast ballots in the November election. Griffin suggested that a court order throwing out those votes could swing the election result in his favor.
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Federal Appeals Court sets Jan. 27 oral argument in NC Supreme Court election dispute
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments on Jan. 27 in the election dispute involving a seat on North Carolina’s Supreme Court. A court order Friday afternoon set the hearing in response to Democrat Allison Riggs’ request to expedite the case’s timeline.
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Elections board asks 4th Circuit to order Myers to take back NC Supreme Court dispute
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is asking a federal Appeals Court to order a federal trial judge to take back a case involving a dispute over the state’s recent state Supreme Court election. The case sits now with North Carolina’s Supreme Court, which blocked certification of the election through a temporary stay Tuesday.
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Tillis blasts judge’s ‘brazenly partisan’ decision to reverse retirement
North Carolina’s senior US senator is criticizing a federal Appeals Court judge’s decision to rescind his pending retirement. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis played the leading role in blocking the Biden administration’s choice to replace Judge James Wynn.
