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Oh, Judge Narley was kind enough to inflict the State of North Carolina with the damn Miss North Carolina (bogus) lawsuit.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An arbitrator will decide the breach of contract lawsuit filed by Rebekah Revels against the Miss North Carolina organization, a judge has ruled.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Narley Cashwell ordered Monday that an arbitrator would hear Revels’ case against the pageant. He previously had ordered arbitration in her lawsuit against eight people, including five pageant board members.

Revels’ lawyer, Barry Nakell, objected to Cashwell’s order, but said after the hearing that he was satisfied with the judge’s decision. He said he hoped arbitration could begin in late May or early June, allowing a decision before the next Miss North Carolina pageant.

That would be “in time for the new pageant so she could be celebrated as Miss North Carolina 2002 … and then crown the new Miss North Carolina,” Nakell said after the hearing.

Harley Jones, attorney for the state organization, sought the arbitration order after Cashwell denied his request to dismiss Miss North Carolina as a defendant in one of two lawsuits that Nakell has filed in Wake and Robeson counties.

Revels won the crown last June but resigned in July after an ex-boyfriend told state pageant officials he had topless photographs of her. She later said she was forced to step down.

Her successor, Misty Clymer, represented North Carolina in the Miss America pageant, but Revels was invited to represent the United States in the Miss World competition.

After the Miss America pageant, Cashwell ruled that neither woman could claim she was Miss North Carolina until the matter was settled.

Revels’ case against the Miss America Organization is still scheduled to go to trial in Robeson County, Nakell said. Last month, Cashwell denied a motion by the Miss America Organization to send that lawsuit to arbitration.

He's GOT to be a Democrat.