North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the time of the year when Supreme Court justices can get testy. They might have to find a new way to show it. The court’s most fought-over decisions in its most consequential cases often come in ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A large COVID-19 outbreak at a prison in Goldsboro has led officials to shutter a nearby facility and transfer its offenders elsewhere so guards can help relieve staff at the beleaguered Neuse Correctional Institution. Officers from the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police can pull over a car when they know only that its owner’s license is invalid, even if they don’t know who’s behind the wheel, the Supreme Court ruled on April 6. The court said in an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Well, OK, boomer. The Supreme Court has made it easier for federal employees 40 and older to sue for age discrimination. The justices ruled 8-1 on April 6 that federal workers have a lower hurdle to overcome ...

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 ...