North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The whole point of a court of appeal is to disabuse trial judges who’ve somehow misapplied the law, and on occasion exasperated appellate judges have been known to issue their rebukes in particularly pointed language. But an opinion this month ...

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Andrew Craig Jackson Jr. was disbarred Oct. 28 after voluntarily surrendering his law license.

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As campaign messages go, it was not the closing pitch that Sidebar would have expected, but it was perhaps the one that partisan judicial elections made inevitable. Justice Barbara Jackson had the misfortune to be running against the partisan tide ...

Democratic civil rights attorney Anita Earls has won an eight-year term on North Carolina’s Supreme Court in an election where voters also soundly rejected two proposed amendments to the state’s constitution that would have stripped the governor’s office of the ...

A federal judge overstepped in imposing a sweeping gag order in a contentious series of nuisance lawsuits against the world’s largest pork producer, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. “Gag orders should be a last resort, not ...

Fletcher L. Hartsell Jr. of Concord was disbarred on Oct. 26. He had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his misuse of campaign funds to pay for personal expenses over the course of several years.

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Trevor Ivan Huck was disbarred on Oct. 26. He had pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 23 to one count of receipt of child pornography.

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Arnold O. Jones II was suspended from the practice of law for five years on Oct. 25.

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Sidebar loves to keep up with the latest news, but doesn’t like having to get dressed up for work like a grown-up, so he was delighted to learn that attorneys can now follow the goings-on at the North Carolina State ...

A nuanced legal issue is like a compelling work of art—open to more than one interpretation. In the case of one city’s decision to lease an historic building to a local arts guild, the North Carolina Supreme Court saw a ...

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