Search for: "NORTH CAROLINA COURT SYSTEM"
Results 2761 - 2780
of 3,760
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
23 Apr 2012, 2:58 pm
Kemp case and the landmark decision in the North Carolina Racial Justice Act case literally come full circle. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 4:11 am
It has a brief history of the North Carolina movement for sterilization -- and points out in particular that North Carolina was influenced by California's experience. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 6:54 am
Despite challenges from North Carolina's district attorneys who fear “too much justice” and state legislators who voted to repeal the law last year and stick their head in the sand about systemic racism, North Carolina leads the country in deliberate efforts to eliminate racial considerations from the capital punishment system. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 3:35 pm
by Jeremy Leaming A North Carolina judge ruling under the state’s 2009 Racial Justice Act reduced a death sentence to life in prison of a black man who proved that racial discrimination resulted in his sentencing. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 3:03 pm
government acknowledged 'the overrepresentation of minority persons, particularly Blacks/African Americans, in the death row population.' Beyond North Carolina, U.S. constitutional law continues to prevent successful challenges to these racist practices. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm
The RJA represents a landmark reform in North Carolina, a state which has long been a leader in forward-thinking criminal justice policies. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 8:33 am
The forest view of North Carolina jury selection is a picture of discrimination. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 8:10 am
It signals both that North Carolina will not tolerate a system of capital punishment built on the back of rampant discrimination and that it is possible to take systemic discrimination seriously. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:59 am
• With today’s ruling, North Carolina continues its leading role as a state willing to honestly and fairly examine the affect of race in its criminal justice system. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:40 am
Legislatures Coming Back Into Session North Carolina 4/23 – 4/25 Floor/Committee Activity of Note April 23 Tennessee House HJR 753 (Constitutional Amendment) ORIGINAL: Provides all appellate judges are to be initially selected via merit-based gubernatorial appointment from a panel of qualified candidates submitted by a nominating commission. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 11:31 am
During this proxy season, we represented and advised five such clients - the Illinois State Board of Investment, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the North Carolina State Treasurer, and the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System - in connection with their submission of proposals for a vote at the annual meetings of more than 80 companies on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 11:03 am
Michigan already has such a law, and ALEC-affiliated lawmakers have proposed this legislation in other states, like North Carolina. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 8:03 pm
He has represented numerous clients in cases filed in the state and federal courts of Kentucky, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and has tried cases in Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 11:37 am
North Carolina HB 325 and SB 458 – There were several hearings in 2011 on the prospect of creating some sort of merit selection system in North Carolina, but instead of using retention elections providing that the person chosen and the person not selected by the governor would face off in an election after. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 11:09 am
Probation is a form of punishment issued by a criminal court in place of incarceration. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 2:41 pm
So far six states have laws on the books covering "virtual" or "electronic" visitation rights including North Carolina: Florida, Texas and Wisconsin are the other three. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 11:18 am
Florida HB 1209 Provides “foreign law, legal code, or system” means any law, legal code, or system of a jurisdiction outside any state or territory of the United States, including, but not limited to, international organizations or tribunals, and applied by that jurisdiction’s courts, administrative bodies, or other formal or informal tribunals. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 9:55 am
Died While in Custody Roberto Medina-Martinez, a 39-year old native of Mexico, had been arrested in North Carolina in January of 2009 for speeding and driving without a license. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 11:23 am
Lee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, entitled States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 4:19 am
In cities in Nevada, North Carolina and other states, police departments have gotten wireless carriers to track cellphone signals back to cell towers as part of nonemergency investigations to identify all the callers using a particular tower, records show. [read post]
