A civil action regarding employment discrimination brought pursuant to this Chapter shall be commenced within 180 days after the date on which the aggrieved person became aware of or, with reasonable diligence, should have become aware of the alleged discriminatory practice or prohibited conduct. A civil action brought pursuant to this Chapter regarding any other complaint of discrimination shall be commenced within two years after the date on which the aggrieved person became aware of or, with reasonable diligence, should have become aware of the alleged discriminatory practice or prohibited conduct.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 168A-12
Statute of limitations
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 157 N.C. App. 38 - Johnson v. Board of Trustees of Durham Technical Community College (2003)
Most recently applied in 91 F. Supp. 3d 755 - Dickinson v. University of North Carolina (March 2015)
1985, c. 571, s. 1; 1999-160, s. 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.