North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s voter photo identification mandate already may be blocked for the upcoming March primary by a federal judge, but others are still trying to fight the ID requirement in state courts. Lawyers for five voters who ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The state of North Carolina must pay over $102,000 to the winning side in a recent legislative redistricting case and the outside expert who helped analyze redrawn district lines, state judges have ruled. A three-judge panel directed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said that it will consider expanding protections for churches against job-discrimination claims. The justices agreed on Dec. 18 to review two cases in which a federal appeals court allowed discrimination lawsuits by teachers against ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory announced on Dec. 19 that he won’t try to recapture his old office in 2020, but will continue to consider a U.S. Senate bid in 2022. The Republican revealed his decision ...

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Some board members of the University of North Carolina say an agreement they worked out means a controversial Confederate statue will never return to the college campus where it was toppled more than a year ago. Five ...

PITTSBORO (AP) — A North Carolina county has removed a Confederate statue from a historic courthouse, joining the handful of places around the state where such monuments have come down in recent years despite a law protecting them. Preparations began ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court says there was nothing unlawful about Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration firing an agency spokesman who had served under Cooper’s Republican predecessor. A Court of Appeals panel reversed on Nov. 19 an ...

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say a lawyer with a suspended license has been arrested on charges he threatened to kill county judges. News outlets report that Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies arrested 48-year-old Dee Wayne Bray Jr. on ...