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In January 2021, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in M.E. v. T.J. that the statute preventing judges from granting domestic violence protections to people in same-sex relationships was unconstitutional. [41] The ruling was upheld by the North Carolina Supreme Court on March 11, 2022. North Carolina was the last remaining state in the ...
Watauga County Courthouse Watauga County: 842 W King St, Suite 13 Boone, NC 28607-3525 Wayne County Courthouse Wayne County: 224 Walnut St, Room 230 Goldsboro, NC 27530 Wilkes County Courthouse: Wilkes County: 500 Courthouse Dr Wilkesboro, NC 28697-2497 1903 Wilson County Courthouse: Wilson County: 115 E Nash St Wilson, NC 27894 1924–1925 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v.Texas (2003) held laws criminalizing consensual homosexual activity between adults unconstitutional. [1]In State v.Whiteley (2005), the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the crime against nature statute, N.C. G.S. § 14-177, [2] is not unconstitutional on its face because it may properly be used to criminalize sexual conduct involving minors ...
North Carolina Amendment 1 (often referred to as simply Amendment 1) is a partially overturned legislatively referred constitutional amendment in North Carolina that (until overruled in federal court) amended the Constitution of North Carolina to add ARTICLE XIV, Section 6, which prohibit the state from recognizing or performing same-sex ...
The 1776 Constitution of North Carolina says the following about the Justices of the Peace: "XXXIII. That the Justices of the Peace, within their respective counties in this State, shall in future be recommended to the Governor for the time being, by the Representatives in General Assembly; and the Governor shall commission them accordingly: and the Justices, when so commissioned, shall hold ...
The U.S. state of Maine allows first-cousin marriage if the couple agrees to have genetic counseling, while North Carolina allows it so long as the applicants for marriage are not rare double first cousins, meaning cousins through both parental lines. [201]
The application of marriage law equally to same-sex and opposite-sex couples has varied by jurisdiction, and has come about through legislative change to marriage law, court rulings based on constitutional guarantees of equality, recognition that marriage of same-sex couples is allowed by existing marriage law, and by direct popular vote, such ...
Murphy’s third courthouse was constructed in 1868 by reusing the brick from the first courthouse. It was a square, two-story building that the county quickly outgrew. In 1892, a fourth, larger courthouse was built on the site of the current marble courthouse at the corner of Central and Peachtree streets, down the road from the traditional ...