North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — The hiring of a new top administrator of North Carolina’s court system is one of several significant personnel changes in a shake-up atop the state Judicial Branch since Chief Justice Paul Newby was sworn in this month. ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of a North Carolina Supreme Court decision requiring it to release disciplinary records of students who violated the school’s sexual ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling threatens the ability of elected executive branch leaders in the state to control non-tax dollars without legislative permission. The panel’s majority ruled on Dec. 15 that Attorney General Josh Stein ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Police unlawfully obtained evidence of drugs, a gun, and counterfeit money at a North Carolina home because officers took a late-night shortcut through the suspect’s yard instead of walking up the driveway, the state Court of Appeals ...

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to expedite a lawsuit that could stop a tribe from building a casino in North Carolina outside the city of Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer reports that District of Columbia District Judge James ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A federal judge wrongly blocked North Carolina’s latest photo voter identification law, an appeals court ruled on Dec. 2, reversing a rule which had declared that the requirement was tainted by racial bias largely because a previous ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Republican Paul Newby’s narrow lead over Democratic incumbent Cheri Beasley changed little overall as a statewide machine recount of North Carolina’s very close race for Supreme Court chief justice was finally completed late on Dec. 2. The ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina-based company under contract to maintain state-owned rest areas will pay more than $39,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said. A news release from the commission on Oct. 23 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court, already poised to take a significant turn to the right, opened its new term Oct. 5 with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s landmark 2015 ruling striking ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opens a new term with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the ...