Legislators returned to Raleigh this week and passed a bill moving the dates for the 2022 primary and some municipal elections. Primary Election and Some Municipal Election Dates Moved - Both houses passed a bill...more
State Supreme Court Orders Legislature to Redraw Maps - In a 4-3 decision on Friday, the State Supreme Court ruled the recently drawn Congressional and State legislative maps unconstitutional....more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Government Relations Team represents a variety of clients across many industries and in all levels of government, with a focus on the North Carolina General Assembly. Below is an update on the activity...more
A great deal of interest has been born in the wake of the North Carolina Business Court’s 2020 conclusion that the North Carolina Railroad Company “NCRR” is not an agency of the state subject to the provisions of the North...more
The Supreme Court’s Office of Administrative Counsel has published an up-to-date set of the General Rules of Practice for the Superior and District Courts of North Carolina. This is the first codification of the Rules since...more
In April 2017, the General Assembly surprised appellate stakeholders by adopting legislation shifting a subclass of Rule 3.1 juvenile appeals—Termination of Parental Rights (“TPR”) appeals—to the Supreme Court’s mandatory...more
On Monday, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Judge Mark Davis to the Associate Justice seat recently vacated by now-Chief Justice Beasley. Soon-to-be Justice Davis has served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals since 2012....more
After two years of uncertainty about the future of the Court of Appeals, there appears to have been a breakthrough. Yesterday, a bill was introduced by Republicans in the North Carolina Senate that would preserve the size of...more
Governor Cooper has named Associate Justice Cheri Beasley to be the next Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Justice Beasley will assume the post upon the retirement of Chief Justice Mark Martin at the end of...more
The legislature continued its slow start to the 2019 session, with the Senate holding skeletal sessions most of the week and the House only having a few committee meetings. Legislative leaders have indicated that the slow...more
State legislators returned to Raleigh this week to begin work for the 2019 session. This year’s “long session” is expected to last through the summer as members enact a two-year budget and consider hundreds of bills....more
Agriculture - WRAL NEWS: NC farmers struggle with government shutdown The Farm Service Agency Office in Harnett County sits dark as the federal government shutdown approaches two weeks....more
Despite 2018 being a “blue moon” election cycle, North Carolina experienced near-record voter turnout for yesterday’s election. Once in a “blue moon,” North Carolina does not have any marquee, statewide races on the...more