Last week, we wrote about a bill that was introduced in the legislature that would shrink the Court of Appeals to 12 judges while tweaking the jurisdiction of the Supreme
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Heard But Not Decided: Summary Disposition of Appeals
By Kip D. Nelson on
You lost in the North Carolina Court of Appeals, but you have convinced yourself that your legal argument was correct. You file a Petition for Discretionary Review (“PDR”) with the…
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Supreme Court to Hear Three Significant Civil Appeals in October
By Matthew Nis Leerberg on
Continuing a recent trend of tackling more thorny civil cases, the Supreme Court of North Carolina will hear three high-profile civil cases this October. Notably, two of the three cases…
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