In the next few weeks, you’ll notice a few new things here in the courts newsletter. First, we have a new name: The Docket. We decided to be marginally less boring, at least in that regard.

Second, anyone who is not a paid Assembly subscriber will start seeing less here. You’ll still receive the first part of this newsletter each week, but after that you’ll see a prompt to become a paid premium subscriber in order to read the rest.  […]

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.