The repeated use of a racial epithet by the 6-year-old grandson of the owners of an assisted living facility was sufficient to support a former employee’s hostile work environment claim, a unanimous panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
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A trial court properly concluded that it did not have personal jurisdiction over a defendant that was never properly served with service of process, a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming dismissal of the ...
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A public charter school violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it required female students to wear skirts to school based on the view that girls are “fragile vessels” deserving of “gentle” treatment by boys, the en ...
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A public utility seeking to intervene in an environmental action brought by the state against The Chemours Co. waited too long to file its motion, a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming denial. Chemours ...
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A bag with $16,761 in cash seized by state police and turned over to federal officers could not be recovered in a state court action, a panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, as the federal court ...
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Whether a workers’ compensation claim was time-barred because it was filed after the two-year limit set by N.C.G.S. § 97-24 is a jurisdictional matter subject to de novo review on appeal — including facts, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ...
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The proper calculation of underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage in a case involving both multiple underinsured tortfeasors and multiple UIM insurance policies is the difference between the total amount paid under all exhausted liability policies and the total limits of all ...
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A trial court did not abuse its discretion in disqualifying an attorney from appearing on behalf of himself or his law firm, both named as defendants in a legal malpractice action, a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of ...
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A district court properly approved the settlement of a long-running class action lawsuit brought by life insurance policyholders, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, rejecting the objection by a single policyholder and laying down for the first ...
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A service technician who was unwilling to move to a different state to take on less strenuous work after being injured on the job wasn’t entitled to unemployment benefits because his decision to leave work wasn’t attributable to his employer, ...
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