NC Supreme Court

North Carolina's highest court is weighing whether a state law that gave adults who were victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages is constitutional or not. The state Supreme Court heard Wednesday five cases involving individuals who sued based on changes in a 2019 law. Victims used to have until age 21 to sue. The law raised that age but also gave other victims whose time period still had expired to file lawsuits in 2020 or 2021. The court gave no indication when it would rule on the constitutionality. Since 2002, 30 states revived previously expired child sex abuse claims with expansions of claim periods.

North Carolina trial judges have dismissed a lawsuit challenging redrawn legislative and congressional district lines on the argument that they run afoul of an indirect constitutional right to "fair elections."

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North Carolina’s chief justice has quietly replaced the next leader of the state’s intermediate-level appeals court. The new chief judge at the Court of Appeals is Judge Chris Dillon, whose appointment took effect Monday.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper appointed an appellate judge and longtime voting rights attorney to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court created when one of two Democratic justices stepped down early.

Civil rights advocates and Democratic state legislators defended and praised Wednesday a state Supreme Court justice for suing this week to block a state ethics panel from investigating her public

North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Mike Morgan, who announced last month he won't seek reelection to the court next year, says he's weighing a 2024 bid for governor.

A Northwest North Carolina district court judge has been suspended following a decision by the state Supreme Court.

The razor-thin margin in the race for state Supreme Court Justice has not yet been resolved, and the North Carolina State Board of Elections says the counting will continue for a couple of days.