The General Court of Justice shall constitute a unified judicial system for purposes of jurisdiction, operation, and administration, and shall consist of an Appellate Division, a Superior Court Division, and a District Court Division.
History Note. - The provisions of this section are similar to those of Art. IV, § 2, Const. 1868, as that article was rewritten in 1962.
Legal Periodicals. - For article, "Constitutional Rights of Students, Their Families, and Teachers in the Public Schools," see 10 Campbell L. Rev. 353 (1988).
CASE NOTES
Courts Constituting General Court of Justice. - The General Court of Justice consists exclusively of the courts constituting the appellate, superior court and district court divisions thereof. State v. Matthews, 270 N.C. 35, 153 S.E.2d 791 (1967), decided under former Art. IV, Const. 1868, as rewritten in 1962.
Police officer is not an official of the General Court of Justice. State v. Matthews, 270 N.C. 35, 153 S.E.2d 791 (1967), decided under former Art. IV, Const. 1868, as rewritten in 1962.
The superior court is a court of general jurisdiction and has jurisdiction in all actions for personal injuries caused by negligence, except where its jurisdiction is divested by statute. Morse v. Curtis, 276 N.C. 371, 172 S.E.2d 495 (1970), decided under former Art. IV, Const. 1868, as rewritten in 1962.
Three-Judge Panel for Redistricting Challenges Held Constitutional. - Three-judge panel of superior court judges required by G.S. 1-267.1 is not a new court outside of the contemplation of N.C. Const. art. IV, §§ 12 and 13(2), as a challenge to redistricting is a matter of procedure that lies within the purview of the General Assembly; accordingly, no new courts are created beyond those contemplated by N.C. Const. art. IV, §§ 1, 2. Stephenson v. Bartlett, 358 N.C. 219, 595 S.E.2d 112 (2004).
Applied in Gentry v. Uniform Judicial Retirement Sys., 378 F. Supp. 1 (M.D.N.C. 1974).
Cited in Balcon, Inc. v. Sadler, 36 N.C. App. 322, 244 S.E.2d 164 (1978); State v. Pennington, 327 N.C. 89, 393 S.E.2d 847 (1990); Ocean Hill Joint Venture v. North Carolina Dep't of Environment, Health & Natural Resources, 333 N.C. 318, 426 S.E.2d 274 (1993).