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The Court of Appeals was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1967 after voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1965 which "authorized the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to relieve pressure on the North Carolina Supreme Court." [2] Judges serve eight-year terms and are elected in statewide elections.
Robert Christopher "Chris" Dillon (born 1965) is a North Carolina attorney and judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Dillon won election to the appellate court in a statewide race on Nov. 6, 2012, when he defeated incumbent Cressie Thigpen. [1] Dillon won re-election on Nov. 3, 2020 over challenger Gray Styers.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals was created as an intermediate appellate court in 1967 in part to help ease the workload of the Supreme Court. [3] The General Assembly made Supreme Court elections non-partisan starting with the 2004 elections, but later made them partisan again after the 2016 elections. [4]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday blocked the state from sending out absentee ballots, siding with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his effort to be removed from the state’s presidential ballot.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals handles cases appealed by lower state courts and deals only with whether the previous trials were conducted in line with the law. There are 15 judges who serve ...
An appeals court judge has halted the start of the early voting process in North Carolina, ordering mail-in ballots to not be disseminated as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his appeal to remove ...
Courts of North Carolina include: State courts of North Carolina. North Carolina Supreme Court [1] North Carolina Court of Appeals [2] North Carolina Superior Court (46 districts) [3] North Carolina District Courts (45 districts) [4] Federal courts located in North Carolina. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North ...
North Carolina’s highest court has decided it won’t fast-track appeals of results in two lawsuits initiated by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper that challenged new laws that eroded his power to ...