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North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, 433 U.S. 119 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case where the court held that prison inmates do not have a right under the First Amendment to join labor unions.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama anti-miscegenation statute did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. According to the court, both races were treated equally, because whites and black people were punished in equal measure for breaking the law against interracial marriage and interracial sex.
Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a unanimous Court found that "the legacy of official discrimination ... acted in concert with the multimember districting scheme to impair the ability of "cohesive groups of black voters to participate equally in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice."
The NC Supreme Court heard arguments about voting rights for people released from prison. Its ruling could provide insight into how the court will proceed for the next few years.
The wife of an Irish businessman who was beaten to death in 2015 and the woman's father were released from separate North Carolina prisons on Thursday after completing the tail end of their ...
North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), [1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that there are no constitutional barriers in place to prevent a judge from accepting a guilty plea from a defendant who wants to plead guilty, while still protesting his innocence, under duress, as a detainee status.
Democratic North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs holds a 734-vote lead (out of more than 5.5 million ballots cast) over Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin after the ...
North Carolina v. Negro Will: Supreme Court of North Carolina: Judge William Gaston held that slaves who killed their owner or overseer in self-defense could not be found guilty of murder, but at most manslaughter (cf. North Carolina v. Mann (1830) above) [3] [4] 1836: Commonwealth v. Aves: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court