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The Court of Appeals was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1967 after voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1965 which "authorized the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to relieve pressure on the North Carolina Supreme Court." [2] Judges serve eight-year terms and are elected in statewide elections.
Wynn grew up in the Eastern North Carolina community of Robersonville, one of eight children.His family operated a farm on which he worked during his childhood. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, 1975); Marquette University Law School (Juris Doctor, 1979); and the University of Virginia School of Law (Master of Laws, Judicial ...
Allegra Collins (born January 13, 1972) is an American attorney, educator and judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Collins attended the University of California at Los Angeles before transferring and earning an undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary in 1994. [ 2 ]
Get to know the candidates for North Carolina’s judicial races with our voter guide. Candidate for NC Court of Appeals, Democrat Ed Eldred, answers our questions Skip to main content
The Court of Appeals disagreed Tuesday, saying Largess offered no evidence of Novant Health’s or Cureton’s training to establish the requisite knowledge of federal anti-discrimination law.
Generally speaking the appellate court examines the record of evidence presented in the trial court and the law that the lower court applied and decides whether that decision was legally sound or not. The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact (such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ...
The North Carolina Court of Appeals handles cases appealed by lower state courts and deals only with whether the previous trials were conducted in line with the law.
The decisions of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are published in the North Carolina Reports and North Carolina Court of Appeals Reports, respectively. [8] Opinions are first published online on filing day as slip opinions, and may be withdrawn or corrected until the mandate issues 20 days later. [ 8 ]