North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it wants to be able to enforce an expected settlement in a federal lawsuit in North Carolina accusing neighboring research universities of conspiring to depress wages for medical professionals. The Justice Department said in ...

GREENVILLE (AP) — An attorney for a North Carolina man serving a life sentence for murder says false testimony sent her client to prison. News outlets report attorney and Duke University law professor Theresa Newman made her argument May 17 ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina House is starting another round of redistricting demanded by judges who declared Republicans unnecessarily redrew a handful of districts in 2017. The House Redistricting Committee scheduled a meeting for May 16 to discuss remapping ...

North Carolina’s attorney general is suing a popular e-cigarette maker, asking a court to limit what flavors it can sell and ensure underage teens can’t buy its vaping products. Josh Stein, the top law enforcement official in the traditionally tobacco-friendly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided May 13 that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions. The outcome ...

HALIFAX (AP) — The state’s highest court will hear cases involving murder, robbery and a pirate ship when it holds sessions in eastern North Carolina as part of its bicentennial. The court will hear two cases each in Halifax on ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina legislators were not just sneaky when they took surprise action and cut Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s powers before he took office, they violated the state constitution, plaintiffs told a state appeals panel May 9. The ...

RALEIGH (AP) — About 10,000 North Carolina households and several hundred businesses and government buildings are expected to gain high-speed internet access through the first grants issued by a new state broadband initiative. State leaders announced this week that nearly ...

DURHAM (AP) — A North Carolina probation officer has been fired over allegations that he had offenders on house arrest pay for additional time outside, saying they had to “pay to play.” The Charlotte Observer reports a state Department of ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina House and Senate are trying to pass dozens of bills before a self-imposed deadline designed to winnow policy ideas with enough support from those that lack it. The General Assembly set May 9 as ...