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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.
There are 15 judges who serve on the court of appeals with three open seats this November. Election 2024: Meet the candidates for the North Carolina Court of Appeals Skip to main content
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 [8] Opinions are first published online on filing day as slip opinions, and may be withdrawn or corrected until the mandate issues 20 days later.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]
The appellate decision by a three-judge panel on Tuesday, which the Turpins intend to appeal, upheld an October 2022 trial court ruling favoring the school in the case around an agreement between ...
She was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, [2] and later to the North Carolina Supreme Court. [ 3 ] Riggs has served as co-leader of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina , and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a Texas redistricting case in 2018 and a North Carolina ...
The NC court system did not respond to questions about potential changes that would expand the power of the GOP-majority state Supreme Court.
In some cases, an appellate court may review a lower court decision "de novo" (or completely), challenging even the lower court's findings of fact. This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only ...
As a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, I apply the law as written to every case before me, regardless of partisan divides. The NC Code of Judicial Conduct has not been updated since 2020.