North Carolina Court Records

North Carolina Court Record Lookup

Enforcing an eviction order, collecting a civil judgement, establishing child custody, or clearing one’s driving record can all be accomplished with the proper court document. North Carolina NC Court records are public documents available to anyone in North Carolina or other states and can be accessed by performing North Carolina court records search.

Specialty courts

Business court is overseen by a sitting superior court justice appointed by the state supreme court to apply commercial and corporate laws in four locations around the state.

Drug treatment courts are aimed at keeping nonviolent addicts out of jail and connecting them with treatment options.

Family courts, located in eight districts, specifically handle domestic issues such as family violence, divorce, custody, North Carolina child support, and juvenile issues.

Trial courts

District courts are located in each county in North Carolina, with jurisdiction over misdemeanor crimes, civil cases with up to $25,000 in value, and some family issue such as divorces. Jury trials are not held in district courts.

Superior courts hear all felony criminal cases and civil cases with more than $25,000 of value in dispute. These North Carolina courthouses also hear appeals of district court cases. There are eight superior court divisions around the state. Mentioned courts had 16,194 civil and 126,707 criminal cases before them in a recent year, which can be accessed via North Carolina court case lookup. There were an additional 8,600 criminal-level traffic issues. To find this information perform North Carolina criminal records search.

Appellate courts

Fifteen judges sit in panels of three to hear appeals of lower court case decisions in dispute.

The state supreme court oversees the state bar, appeals of decisions of state agencies, and takes cases from the intermediate appellate court.

U.S. District Courts

Each state has at least one federal court, called U.S. District Court. These NC courtrooms have jurisdiction over violations of federal law, multistate lawsuits, bankruptcy, and more. Anyone can access these North Carolina court records online via performing North Carolina court record lookup.

North Carolina Notable Court Cases

In Dickson v. Rucho, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the decision that race could be used to choose new boundaries for voting districts after reviewing results of the 2010 census. The plaintiffs argued that the government was creating the majority and minority districts by relying too much on race while redrawing the districts. The U.S. Supreme Court later sent the case back to North Carolina's Supreme Court for review after the federal high court determined in a similar Alabama case that the redistricting should be done so with great scrutiny when based on analysis of race.