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NC Supreme Court Justice Berger can hear case involving his father, court rules
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled this month that Justice Phil Berger Jr. did not have to recuse himself from the rehearing of the Leandro case, involving his father, State Senate Pro Tempore Phil Berger, allowing the younger Berger to help decide the outcome. The current case stems from the 1997 ruling of Leandro v.…
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Ethics complaint against NC Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls is dismissed
Earls, the only Black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court, was being investigated by the state judicial watchdog for criticizing the court’s lack of diversity. North Carolina’s judicial ethics commission dismissed its investigation into anonymous complaints that accused Justice Anita Earls, the only Black woman on the state Supreme Court, of undermining the court’s…
