Supreme Court of North Carolina

Cmty. Success Initiative v. Moore

April 28, 2023

Summary

The court held that plaintiff-felons and the North Carolina NAACP had standing, but that the other organizational plaintiffs lacked standing. On the merits, the court concluded that the statute governing restoration of voting rights to felons on supervision did not violate the state Equal Protection Clause, Property Qualifications Clause, or Free Elections Clause, and that the trial court had applied the wrong standards and misapprehended the evidence. The court stated that the trial court's judgment should be reversed, although the supplied opinion is truncated before the formal disposition.