NC Supreme Court

Image shows Allison Riggs listening as Anita Earls speaks

Courts

NC Justice Anita Earls says protests over contested race raised awareness about electing judges

3:10pm May 14, 2025

The reason Democrat Allison Riggs wasn’t sworn in until Tuesday was because her opponent, Republican Jefferson Griffin, contested the election for six months.

Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs

Politics & Government

Unsettled North Carolina election could be determined by which ballots are subject to court orders

4:05pm April 17, 2025

by Associated Press

North Carolina's Supreme Court decided recently that ballots from two categories should have been left out of the tally of an unresolved November election for a seat on the court.

Politics & Government

Democratic candidate Allison Riggs pledges to keep fighting in North Carolina's close Supreme Court race

7:03pm April 14, 2025

by Associated Press

Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs has told supporters at a rally that she will fight as long as it takes while awaiting a final decision in North Carolina's unresolved Supreme Court race.

Photos show North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Allison Riggs and North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin.

North Carolina judges side with Republican colleague in close Supreme Court election

4:00pm April 04, 2025

by Associated Press

A North Carolina appeals court has sided with the trailing Republican candidate in an extremely close state Supreme Court election. Friday's 2-1 appellate ruling could flip the result of the nation's only 2024 race that is still undecided.

Politics & Government

Superior Court Judge Lora Cubbage takes job with the city of Greensboro

2:00pm April 01, 2025

by Paul Garber

As a deputy city attorney, Cubbage will represent Greensboro’s public safety departments.

North Carolina appeals judges hear arguments in unresolved court election

3:04pm March 21, 2025

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina appeals court judges listened to arguments Friday about whether votes on tens of thousands of ballots in an unsettled state Supreme Court election from November should remain in the tally or could be discarded.

the North Carolina justice building in Raleigh

Politics & Government

Fellow GOP judge is a top donor in Jefferson Griffin's legal fight

9:40am January 31, 2025

by Rusty Jacobs, WUNC

Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin is getting financial help from fellow Court of Appeals judge Tom Murry in his legal battle to win a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Crime

North Carolina's highest court hears challenge to law allowing more time for child sex abuse suits

4:33pm September 18, 2024

by Associated Press

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.

Politics & Government

Trial judges dismiss North Carolina redistricting lawsuit over right to 'fair elections'

1:55pm June 29, 2024

by Associated Press

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."

Politics & Government

North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code

12:56pm June 19, 2024

by Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.