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The North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the ongoing school funding case known as Leandro.

The map enacted in October puts Republicans in good shape to win at least 10 of the state’s 14 congressional seats next November. Democrats and Republicans each won seven seats under a map used in 2022, but GOP legislators were able to draw new lines this fall without judicial limits on partisan bias.

Gov. Roy Cooper says Republican lawmakers and the North Carolina Chamber are blocking Black nominees for state business courts.

PETA has said it had wanted to conduct an undercover investigation at testing laboratories at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but feared prosecution under the law.

U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles issued an order Saturday halting enforcement of a provision to require surgical abortions that occur after 12 weeks — like those for cases of rape and incest — be performed only in hospitals.

Child abuse victims effectively have until turning age 21 to file such a lawsuit. But the new law gave people 21 and over time to file such suits in 2020 and 2021. The state Supreme Court likely will have the final say in the matter.

Republicans seized the state Supreme Court after changing how judges are elected. The political implications — and ramifications for everyday life — are huge.

The system developed and being implemented by Tyler Technologies is being blamed for wrongful arrests and unlawful detentions.

The state Senate’s budget includes a plan to give the legislature more power to pick judges.

The new cloud-based system meant to replace the state's 1980s-era mainframe and paper-based court files rolled out in four pilot counties back in February, but a launch in Mecklenburg has been delayed indefinitely.