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North Carolina's highest court is weighing whether a state law that gave adults who were victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages is constitutional or not. The state Supreme Court heard Wednesday five cases involving individuals who sued based on changes in a 2019 law.

The N.C. Supreme Court is the highest court in North Carolina where Republicans currently hold a 5-to-2 majority. This year, incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, will face Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin.

Lawyers are challenging Hasson Bacote's death sentence under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act, arguing race played a factor in his sentence.

A recent report from ProPublica investigates two North Carolina judges who acted in an unethical way and then went undisciplined in a year they're both up for reelection.

The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.

A red-light camera program in one North Carolina city has been declared lawful, even though it was discontinued after another appeals court decided it was unconstitutional. The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a March 2022 Court of Appeals opinion that had struck down Greenville's program.

The high court will determine whether lawyers behind false claims of voter fraud can be sued for defamation.

eCourts is meant to replace North Carolina's 1980s-era mainframe and computer-based paper court management system believed by many to be obsolete. However, attorneys and court personnel have complained that eCourts have slowed things down, plus the company that installed the new system is facing a class-action lawsuit over alleged wrongful detentions due to eCourts.

This week, the North Carolina Supreme Court will revisit the landmark Leandro case to determine whether the state must provide more funding to improve public schools. Now that the makeup of the Court has shifted, justices are taking an unusual step to hear an appeal that could overturn precedent.

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice has ended her lawsuit against an ethics commission because she says the judicial panel scrutinizing her comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her.