The Petition Tracker has been updated with the Supreme Court’s most recent allowed petitions for discretionary review. Although there were some special orders, the Court only allowed two petitions outright. One arose from the Industrial Commission, and the other involves the Raleigh Housing Authority.
The Petition Tracker has also been updated to include the Court’s merits decisions on petitions that were granted.… Continue Reading
The petition tracker has been updated based on the two sets of petition releases that we’ve had so far in 2020. When and how these cases will be decided, in light of the pandemic, is an open question.
These two petition releases have a little something for everyone. Interested in Cooper v. Berger, part 49? We got you covered. … Continue Reading
The petition tracker has been updated with the Supreme Court’s most recent rulings on petitions for discretionary review. The Court accepted three new civil cases dealing with various topics such as charter schools, municipal development ordinances, and evictions. The Court will also be reviewing a juvenile delinquency case and (via a petition for writ of certiorari) another TPR case. As always, we will keep you updated as new developments occur.… Continue Reading
In its most recent batch of decisions, the Supreme Court of North Carolina granted petitions for discretionary review in four criminal cases and three civil cases. The petition tracker has been updated to reflect these additions.
–Kip Nelson… Continue Reading
Finally found time to blog on one of my favorite topics: exceptions and qualifications to the error preservation requirements of Appellate Rule 10! (Um, I heard those groans!). A few weeks ago the North Carolina Supreme Court issued two new opinions shedding additional light on this semi-fascinating topic.
Under the Statutory Mandate Exception to Appellate Rule 10, Trial Judges Generally are Not Required to Supervise the Conduct of “Outside” State Actors
Today we’re introducing a new feature for the blog: the petition tracker. You can check out the petition tracker page here, or by clicking on “Petitions Allowed” in the banner at the top of any page on the blog.
Although our state constitution says that the “courts shall be open,” open hasn’t always meant “clear.” Before we created this feature, we realized that it wasn’t easy to track the cases pending at the Supreme Court.… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court released a batch of orders today, denying review in many cases (as usual) but also granting review in six cases. These six grants—the first from the new Beasley Court—cover issues ranging from federal immigration enforcement by local law enforcement agencies to defamation and Batson challenges.
First up are the habeas petitions of two immigrants detained by the sheriff of Mecklenburg County.… Continue Reading
In October 2018, I gave a CLE presentations with (now recently sworn in) Judge Allegra Collins: “Life Preservers on the Titanic: Issues Not Properly Preserved for Appellate Review.” Part of the presentation posed this question: Can the General Assembly enact a rule or law that automatically preserves certain issues for appellate review? At the time, the answer to that question was as follows:
Last Friday was a blockbuster appellate day for the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Not only did it effectively declare an appellate jurisdiction statute unconstitutional (see Matt’s blog post), but Justice Newby authored a concurring opinion inspired by “It’s a Wonderful Life.” (“Was Old Man Potter simply morally corrupt or was he also guilty of a crime?”).
For North Carolina’s appellate defenders, however, Friday was not a wonderful day.… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, the General Assembly overrode the Governor’s veto of House Bill 239. Against opposition from the bench and the bar, the legislature pushed the court-shrinking bill through on a mostly party–line vote. The override votes came on the heels of a remarkable move by retiring Judge Douglas McCullough–a registered Republican–who reportedly retired a month early to avoid having his seat eliminated by the bill.… Continue Reading