North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a request by Republican lawmakers for its full cadre of judges to rehear a challenge over implementing voter photo identification. The Court of Appeals denied the motion by the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided unanimously with the state of North Carolina in its copyright battle with a company that has documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard’s ship off the state’s coast. Justice Elena Kagan wrote ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court announced March 23 that it was postponing arguments for the first time in more than 100 years because of the coronavirus, including fights over subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records. Arguments scheduled at ...

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A federal judge has ordered two men convicted of trying to bribe a North Carolina insurance regulator not to contact jurors from their recently completed trial after learning a consultant attempted to do so on their behalf. ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina state trooper shouldn’t have been fired for losing his hat and lying about it, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 18 in a case that’s spanned a decade and multiple trips through the ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s newest voter photo identification law seems flawed by “discriminatory intent” and should have been blocked months ago, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled on Feb. 18, creating another obstacle to implementing a requirement now demanded ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals has overturned the 2017 murder convictions of a woman and her father in her husband’s death and ordered a new trial. The court said in its Feb. 4 ruling that it ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Raleigh attorney Mark Bibbs pleaded guilty to four counts of unregistered lobbying in Wake County Superior Court on Jan. 27, the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office has announced. Bibbs received probation and will be disbarred after ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina isn’t doing enough to ensure public school students can obtain a sound basic education, a state judge has ruled, agreeing with the findings of an outside consultant. Superior Court Judge David Lee signed an order ...

HILLSBOROUGH (AP) — A North Carolina county has removed a portrait of a 19th-century state Supreme Court justice from a courtroom at the request of a judge who said it didn’t belong there because of the justice’s racism. Senior Resident ...