On December 7, attorney Sabra Faires filed a lawsuit in North Carolina state court against a new law that says State Supreme Court Justices need not run against opposing candidates when their eight-year terms expire. The law says instead that voters will simply be asked if the particular justice should be retained or not. Faires says the State Constitution does not authorize such retention elections, and that the Constitution plainly requires actual elections. See this story. The case is Faires v North Carolina State Board of Elections, and is in Wake County Superior Court.