Theodore Justice v. Carriage Hill of Carthage Homeowner's Association, Inc.

Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a continuing state prefiling injunction that requires both judicial permission and a private attorney’s merits certification for covered filings, but provides no express exception for papers seeking review, modification, or vacatur of the injunction itself.

Alternatively, whether the Court of Appeals of North Carolina’s July 17, 2026 order denying extraordinary relief without opinion should be vacated and the matter remanded to clarify whether that disposition rests on the federal court-access claim or on an adequate and independent state ground.