Courts

A Democratic lawmaker wants judicial elections in North Carolina determined by nonpartisan contests.

Ace Speedway in Alamance County and its owners accuse Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration of violating its constitutional rights. The state Supreme Court agreed unanimously Friday that the speedway can seek financial damages.

Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

The court ruling is the latest development in a decades-long dispute between North Carolina school boards and the state’s tourism industry over when the majority of the state’s public school students should begin and end their summer vacation.

Federal District Court Judge Catherine Eagles overruled a spate of North Carolina laws that added new requirements to the abortion drug mifepristone.

A trial over a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law has started. The trial began in Winston-Salem on Monday, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly.

U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles granted a partial victory on Tuesday to a physician who performs abortions and last year sued state and local prosecutors and state health and medical officials.

eCourts has been plagued by complaints about its implementation and faces a lawsuit.

A state Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that a trial judge erred when he rejected claims by the North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association and private bars that their constitutional rights to earn a living and for equal treatment under the law had been violated.

The decision Monday from the three-judge panel handed a significant setback to legislative Republicans seeking to wrest those decisions from the governor.