North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

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 ...