North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — Called both a legal “rock star” by Republican senators and an “ideological extremist” by critics, Allison Jones Rushing had already landed what most lawyers would consider a career-defining position before turning 40. But the Trump administration may ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said that he would immediately reopen all K-12 public schools without requiring students or teachers to wear masks if he were governor. The comment came during a Sept. 16 news ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina has sued the federal government to block an attempt at seismic testing off the state’s Atlantic coast to measure for oil and gas deposits, saying a U.S. agency’s decision was unlawful. The National Oceanic and ...

CONCORD (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a new hearing for a man who has spent 44 years in prison for a rape he says he didn’t commit. The Charlotte Observer reports that the Fourth Circuit Court of ...

(AP) — A jury will decide if a former Charlotte police captain acted with malice when he ordered the detention of a mother on a charge of child abuse for leaving her children unattended in a car briefly while asking ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Attorneys representing people who have been convicted of felonies are urging a three-judge panel to block a North Carolina law that keeps felons from voting until their full sentences — not just their prison time — are complete, ...

RALEIGH (AP) — An inmate at a central North Carolina state prison who tested positive for the coronavirus has died, the Department of Public Safety has announced. The prisoner at the Albemarle Correctional Institution in Stanly County died on July 14 from ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The statue of a 19th-century North Carolina Supreme Court justice has been removed from the entrance of the state Court of Appeals building. Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin is known in part for a ruling in which he ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina state senator has announced that he’s contracted COVID-19, marking the first known public case for a General Assembly member. Sen. Danny Britt, a Robeson County Republican and an attorney, told The Associated Press he received the ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said his impending lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper for unilaterally closing businesses and mandating face masks due to COVID-19 isn’t politically motivated, despite their November election matchup. Forest, a Republican, said ...