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The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) announced last week that its officials had been dismissed from a federal class-action lawsuit over the eCourts system critics say has clogged courtrooms and led to people being wrongfully arrested or detained. […]

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.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.