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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Volume 46, Number 3
THE CHRONICLE
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Hispanic League hosts 27th Annual Fiesta!
Photos by Tevin Stinson
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
Last weekend the Hispanic League celebrated an
other year of service to the community with its annual
Fiesta! celebration on Saturday, Sept. 14.
What began as a small street festival with just a few
vendors, has grown to become one of the biggest events
in the city. In past years more than 20,000 attended Fi
esta! This year the festival held in downtown Winston-
Salem featured dozens of vendors, authentic Hispanic
food, music, and other entertainment.
The Hispanic League is a local 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization that strives to improve the quality of life for
Hispanics/Latinos through promoting community inclu
sion, education, health, and multicultural understanding.
For more information about the Hispanic League
visit www.hispanicleague.org.
Supreme Court judge adds author to list of accomplishments
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
North Carolina Su
preme Court Judge Mark
A. Davis will be able to
add published author to his
list of accomplishments
next month when his book,
“A Warren Court of Our
Own: The Exum Court and
the Expansion of Individ
ual Rights in North Caro
lina,” is officially available
for purchase.
“I never thought I
would write one,” Davis
laughed during an inter
view with The Chronicle
earlier this week.
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leased Oct. 21, “A War-
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The Exum Court and the
Expansion of Individual
Rights in North Caro
lina” takes a close look at
the N.C. Supreme Court
between 1986 and 1995
when James Exum served
as Chief Justice. Accord
ing to Davis, that was a
very progressive time for
the N.C. Supreme Court
where a lot of landmark
decisions were made that
are still used to decide
cases today. Davis, who is
a native of Jefferson, N.C.,
said one day while work
ing in the court of appeals,
he noticed that cases from
that era continued to be
cited.
“I noticed one day in
our briefs that get submit
ted to our court, we were
frequently getting cited to
cases from this era and it
just got me interested in
examining why that was
the case,” Davis continued.
“I finally realized that was
because this was a unique
era in the history of the
North Carolina Supreme
Court. There were a lot of
landmark decisions that
really expanded individual
Submitted photo
North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Mark A. Davis
rights in North Carolina.”
The writing process
began a few years later
while Davis was finish
ing up the master’s in Ju ¬
dicial Studies Program at
Duke University. He said
he started writing a thesis
on the topic and gathered
so much information he
decided to take his thesis
a step further and write a
book.
“It just kept getting
longer and longer and I fi
nally realized that it might
make sense to fry to turn it
into a book,” Davis said.
“And I got lucky - Caro
lina Academic Press ex
pressed interest in publish
ing it and one thing led to
another.”
When asked what he
learned from his research,
Davis said he looks at
that court as the Mount
Rushmore of the N.C. Su
preme Court. Davis said it
was extremely gratifying
to talk with some of the
people who served during
that time period, includ
ing former Chief Justice
James Exum. During his
research, Davis said he
spoke with more than
60 different people who
worked in the court sys
tem. He said, “Of the nine
judges that served, they’re
all legends in North Caro
lina law. They will live on
for decades and decades to
come.
“It was a point in time
where the court was popu
lated by extremely brilliant
judges who just did an
amazing job writing land
mark opinions that really
had a profound effect on
people today.”
While discussing his
own appointment to the
N.C. Supreme Court and
the current state of the
justice system when com
pared to the time period
covered in his book, Da
vis said in the late ‘80s
and mid-‘90s N.C. was
transforming and as a re
sult, a lot of new issues
were being brought to the
court that had never been
brought before and the
judges at that time were
working with a “blank
slate.”
“Today we’re still
faced with important legal
issues, but I don’t think
we’re working with as
quite of a blank slate as the
court during that era,” Da
vis said.
Davis was appointed
to the N.C. Supreme Court
by Governor Roy Cooper
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