State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s Judicial Standards Commission. She alleges the group wants to “chill her right to speak on matters of public concern.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - A North Carolina appeals court had the power to allow a YMCA chapter to mount a constitutional challenge to a law that extended the statute of limitations for childhood sex-abuse victims, the state’s highest court ruled, rejecting arguments a strong dissent provided grounds to reverse the appeals court’s order.