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A lawyer for Associate Justice Anita Earls, one of two registered Democrats and the only Black jurist on the seven-member […] The post North Carolina justice ends suit against ethics panel after ...
A North Carolina Supreme Court justice ended her federal lawsuit against an ethics commission on Wednesday because she said the judicial panel scrutinizing her public comments about the courts ...
I was disappointed, I’ll concede, that a federal court last week didn’t, even at this early stage, prevent the N.C. Judicial Standards Commission’s continuing harassment of Justice Anita Earls.
The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices has varied.
Anita Earls (born February 20, 1960) is an American civil rights attorney who has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court since 2019. She previously served as the executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, as well as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton ...
North Carolina is a Dillon's rule state, [34] and municipalities are only able to exercise the authority that the General Assembly or state constitution explicitly gives them. [26] All municipalities in North Carolina operate under either mayor-council governments or council-manager government , [ 26 ] with most using the latter. [ 25 ]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has vacated the convictions of a former Granville County deputy, who spent more than a year in prison. In February 2022, a jury found Chad Coffey guilty of ...
In August 2014, the North Carolina legislature removed the SBI from the Department of Justice, and Governor Pat McCrory signed the 2014-15 budget bill. That bill, moved the SBI to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety [ 13 ] for administrative purposes (i.e. human resources, payroll, etc.), and the State Crime Lab remained under the ...