North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — Federal agents say they’ve mopped up a theft ring involving 21 co-conspirators, responsible for stealing a precious commodity: $3.9 million worth of used cooking oil known as “yellow grease.” A federal indictment unsealed on June 20 says the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Congress didn’t do anything improper when it gave the attorney general the ability to decide how to apply a sex offender registry law to more than 500,000 people convicted before the law was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A World War I memorial in the shape of a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled on June 20. The justices, in ruling 7-2 in favor of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided June 17 against a high-stakes, election-year case about the competing rights of gay and lesbian couples and merchants who refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings. The justices handed bakers in the Portland, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is upholding a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime, a closely watched case because of its potential implications for people prosecuted in the Russia investigation. ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Legislation designed to further develop North Carolina’s fast-growing hemp industry, increase agritourism and make overhauling open-air waste storage systems easier for industrial-scale hog farms passed the state Senate on June 17. The legislature’s wide-ranging annual Farm Act ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Litigation challenging whether two constitutional amendments should be voided despite voter approval won’t take the express lane to North Carolina’s highest court. Justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court said that they won’t hear the state NAACP’s ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has agreed with another appeals court that oceanfront property owners can get compensated when a municipality takes their land temporarily for upkeep of public beaches. The state Supreme Court on June 14 sided ...

DURHAM (AP) — Moments after a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to gunning down three Muslim university students, a prosecutor played a cellphone video of the slayings in court Wednesday as one of the victims’ relatives fainted, others wept and ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Child sexual abuse victims would have until they are nearly 40 years old to sue for civil damages in North Carolina in legislation advancing June 12 in the state House. While felony child abuse crimes have no ...