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Republican Allen Loughry, who is running for the supreme court of appeals, is the only one of eight candidates to seek public campaign financing through the state’s pilot program. The public financing program provides $50,000 to uncontested primary… MORE
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A district court judge may have violated the state’s code of judicial conduct by writing a letter soliciting campaign contributions for a fellow judge who is running for a state supreme court seat. If a complaint is filed and found to have merit,… MORE
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The supreme court adopted new rules that bar individual judges from taking budget requests and suggestions for revisions to the law directly to legislators without first getting appropriate approval. These rules are in response to judges’ role in… MORE
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A state senator criticized Governor Christie for not taking action on longstanding superior court vacancies. A shortage of judges recently led to a four-month suspension of civil trials in the state’s busiest courthouse. Christie responded that he… MORE
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By a 5-4 vote, the state judicial nominating commission voted to bar its members from contributing to or actively participating in any judicial race in the state, including the retention elections of three supreme court justices. Those who voted in… MORE
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The North Carolina Bar Association has released judicial election information, containing results from the 2011 Judicial Performance Evaluation Surveys and recent Non-Incumbent Judicial Candidate Evaluation Surveys, conducted by the Bar’s Judicial… MORE
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The house judiciary committee rejected by a 7-7 vote a proposal calling for all of the state’s judges to be chosen in popular elections. A majority vote was needed for the bill to advance to the full legislature. The measure also failed to get… MORE
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Last week, we announced that we now recognize ETL Fellows for their contributions to legal education. Professor Benjamin Madison of Regent University School of Law is among our first six. This article by his school details his role in advancing… MORE
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LawWeek Colorado recently featured a story on Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, highlighting the twenty law schools around the country that have already joined our efforts. The article included interviews with three Colorado lawyers who spoke about the… MORE
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Professor Amy Landers discusses the upside of interactive casebooks. Now available as part of some paper-format textbooks, students can link to the subject matter of the cases, including clips of songs, images, and even play the video games… MORE