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Catherine C. Eagles, United States District Judge Last fall the North Carolina General Assembly abolished primaries for partisan judicial elections in 2018. No other mechanism was provided to reduce the number of candidates on the general election ballot. Candidates self-designate party affiliation and may change party affiliation as late as the day of filing. This change burdens the associational rights of the plaintiff political p

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-99 No. 261A18-3 Filed 19 August 2022 NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE v. TIM MOORE, in his official capacity, and PHILIP BERGER, in his official capacity. Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA18-978 Filed: 3 December 2019 Wake County, No. 17 CVS 6465 ROY A. COOPER, III, individually and in his official capacity as GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Plaintiff, v. PHILIP E. BERGER, in his official capacity as PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SENATE; TIMOTHY K. MOORE, in his official capacity as SPEAKER OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HOU

c. Establish new state House and state Senate districting plans that comply with the North Carolina Constitution, if the North Carolina General Assembly fails to enact new state House and state Senate districting plans comporting with the North Carolina Constitution in a timely manner; *508d. Grant Plaintiffs such other and f

PER CURIAM: *782In a memorandum opinion and order entered January 9, 2018 (the "Order"), this Court held that North Carolina's 2016 Congressional Redistricting Plan (the "2016 Plan") constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment, and Article I o

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-122 No. 342PA19-2 Filed 16 December 2022 JABARI HOLMES, FRED CULP, DANIEL E. SMITH, BRENDON JADEN PEAY, and PAUL KEARNEY, SR. v. TIMOTHY K. MOORE, in his official capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; PHILIP E. BERGER, in his official capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Caroli

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-122 No. 342PA19-2 Filed 16 December 2022 JABARI HOLMES, FRED CULP, DANIEL E. SMITH, BRENDON JADEN PEAY, and PAUL KEARNEY, SR. v. TIMOTHY K. MOORE, in his official capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; PHILIP E. BERGER, in his official capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Caroli

MEMORANDUM OPINION Circuit Judge James A. Wynn, Jr., wrote the opinion, in which District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder and District Judge Catherine C. Eagles joined: Over two years ago, in May 2015, thirty-one registered North Carolina voters (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this action alleging that the North Carolina General Assembly unjustifiably, and therefore un

Justice BEASLEY, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I agree with the judgment of the Court as to plaintiffs’ challenge under the “Good of the Whole” Clause in Article I, Section 2 of the North Carolina Constitution; however, because I would conclude that the parties and the jurisprudence of this State would be better served by vacating the trial court’s Judgment and rema

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-121 No. 413PA21 Filed 16 December 2022 REBECCA HARPER; AMY CLARE OSEROFF; DONALD RUMPH; JOHN ANTHONY BALLA; RICHARD R. CREWS; LILY NICOLE QUICK; GETTYS COHEN, JR.; SHAWN RUSH; JACKSON THOMAS DUNN, JR.; MARK S. PETERS; KATHLEEN BARNES; VIRGINIA WALTERS BRIEN; and DAVID DWIGHT BROWN v. REPRESENTATIVE DESTIN HALL, in his official c

PER CURIAM: On August 11, 2016, this Court held that the North Carolina General Assembly unjustifiably relied on race to draw dozens of state Senate and House of Representatives district lines, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Covington v. North Carolina (Covington I ), 316 F.R.D. 117</

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-121 No. 413PA21 Filed 16 December 2022 REBECCA HARPER; AMY CLARE OSEROFF; DONALD RUMPH; JOHN ANTHONY BALLA; RICHARD R. CREWS; LILY NICOLE QUICK; GETTYS COHEN, JR.; SHAWN RUSH; JACKSON THOMAS DUNN, JR.; MARK S. PETERS; KATHLEEN BARNES; VIRGINIA WALTERS BRIEN; and DAVID DWIGHT BROWN v. REPRESENTATIVE DESTIN HALL, in his official c

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 270PA24 Filed 20 March 2026 HOPE SWICEGOOD BYRD, individually and as administrator of the Estate of Christopher Byrd and Phillip Byrd; ELIZABETH ETHERIDGE, administrator of the Estate of Grady G. Byrd; ROBERT BYRD, individually and as a natural son of Grady G. Byrd; CATHLEEN M. KULZER, individually and as natural mother of Jackelyn K. Kulzer; MATTHEW B. BAILER, administr

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 201PA12-2 MARGARET DICKSON, ALICIA CHISOLM, ETHEL CLARK, MATTHEW A. McLEAN, MELISSA LEE ROLLIZO, C. DAVID GANTT, VALERIA TRUITT, ALICE GRAHAM UNDERHILL, ARMIN JANCIS, REBECCA JUDGE, ZETTIE WILLIAMS, TRACEY BURNS-VANN, LAWRENCE CAMPBELL, ROBINSON O. EVERETT, JR., LINDA GARROU, HAYES McNEILL, JIM SHAW, SIDNEY E. DUNSTON, ALMA ADAMS, R. STEVE BOWDEN, JASON EDWARD COLEY, KARL BERTRAND FIELDS, PAMLYN STUBBS, DON

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 388A10 Filed 5 June 2020 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ANDREW DARRIN RAMSEUR On writ of certiorari pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-32(b) to review an order dated 3 June 2014 entered by Judge Joseph N. Crosswhite, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, in Superior Court, Iredell County, dismissing defendant’s motions for appropriate relief. Heard in th

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 388A10 Filed 5 June 2020 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ANDREW DARRIN RAMSEUR On writ of certiorari pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-32(b) to review an order dated 3 June 2014 entered by Judge Joseph N. Crosswhite, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, in Superior Court, Iredell County, dismissing defendant’s motions for appropriate relief. Heard in th

MEMORANDUM OPINION PER CURIAM: In these consolidated cases, two groups of Plaintiffs1 allege that North Carolina’s 2016 Congressional Redistricting Plan (the “Plan”) constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and, in the case of the Common Cause Plaintiffs, Article I, Sec

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 388A10 Filed 5 June 2020 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ANDREW DARRIN RAMSEUR On writ of certiorari pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-32(b) to review an order dated 3 June 2014 entered by Judge Joseph N. Crosswhite, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, in Superior Court, Iredell County, dismissing defendant’s motions for appropriate relief. Heard in th

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 413PA21-2 Filed 28 April 2023 REBECCA HARPER; AMY CLARE OSEROFF; DONALD RUMPH; JOHN ANTHONY BALLA; RICHARD R. CREWS; LILY NICOLE QUICK; GETTYS COHEN, JR.; SHAWN RUSH; JACKSON THOMAS DUNN, JR.; MARK S. PETERS; KATHLEEN BARNES; VIRGINIA WALTERS BRIEN; DAVID DWIGHT BROWN v. REPRESENTATIVE DESTIN HALL, in his official capacity as Chair of the House Standing Committe

Chief Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court. *2491 Voters and other plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland challenged their States' congressional districting maps as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina plaintiffs complained that the State's distric