North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

An employee’s internal complaint about a safety issue at his company can qualify as protected activity under North’s Carolina’s Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous unpublished opinion on Sept. 24. Justin ...

  Passing the bar exam is a thrill for any aspiring lawyer, but even more so for those who’ve also felt the agony of having failed on an earlier attempt. In that sense, then, this year’s bar exam produced an ...

Tagged with: Bar Exam

A railroad company that is wholly owned by the state of North Carolina but operates as an independent corporation isn’t subject to the state’s Public Records Act, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled in a case of first ...

  Indigent defendants are not entitled to the appointment of counsel during a summary direct criminal contempt proceeding, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in a case of first impression. Billy Land appeared in Forsyth County Superior ...

Tagged with: Indigent Defense

  The Supreme Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands has ruled that a judgment entered in favor of a North Carolina man in Johnston County court was void and unconstitutional, the latest twist in a long-running legal dispute that has ...

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Inmates whose detentions were prolonged by attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Corrections’ erroneous analysis of state sentencing law won’t be able to bring a civil rights lawsuit against those attorneys because the attorneys were shielded by the doctrine ...

Tagged with: Immunity

Attorney: Kenneth T. Davies Location: Charlotte Bar membership: Member since 1980 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year on Aug. 21. The suspension is stayed for two years so long as Davies complies with certain conditions. ...

Attorney: John E. Way Location: Morehead City Bar membership: Member since 1981 Disciplinary action: Censured on Aug. 19 Background: In 2016 Way prepared a general warranty deed conveying a piece of real property from his client to the client and ...

  Charges against a Virginia man who was subjected to a warrantless search and seizure will be dropped after a full panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search violated in the Fourth Amendment in ...

Tagged with: Fourth Amendment

  An inmate whose expert witness reviewed all of the medical records provided to him by the state’s corrections department will be able to move ahead with a medical malpractice suit against two physicians who treated him in prison, even ...

Tagged with: Medical Records