We’re still beta testing this newsletter and would love your feedback. Take a brief survey here. Three federal appellate judges heard arguments in late January in a hugely consequential, politically charged lawsuit over North Carolina’s refusal to cover gender-affirming care for state employees and their dependents. But those judges won’t decide the case—at least not […]
Michael Hewlett
Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.
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The New NC Supreme Court’s First Decisions
In late January, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, a Democrat, said the court’s new Republican majority planned to strip the Court of Appeals of the ability to determine which of its rulings set precedents.
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A $100 Million Mess
The rollout of North Carolina’s long-delayed attempt to digitize court records has been a catastrophe. Can it be salvaged?
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A Jury Of One’s Peers
A case before the N.C. Supreme Court questions whether a training document on jury selection was used to help remove Black jurors.
