North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was tipping off just as Lawyers Weekly went to press, so Sidebar won’t embarrass itself by publishing its picks for the Final Four, but March is also the time of year for ...

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  A Charlotte man who was convicted of cyber-stalking a woman he met at church has had those convictions overturned after the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the messages he posted about the woman on his social media ...

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“Radical transparency” is a hot new trend in tech and political circles, but a Guilford County District Court judge has—perhaps—provided some fairly radical transparency about why he’s just been suspended from the bench. Guilford County District Judge Mark Cummings was ...

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Appellate judges are often called upon to review cases in which a person’s freedom, or livelihood, or constitutional rights may hang in the balance. And then there’s also this stuff: The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently handed down an ...

A Mecklenburg County man convicted of selling marijuana did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel even though his attorney mistakenly waived his right to receive proper notice that prosecutors planned to raise an aggravating factor during his sentencing, the North ...

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An Asheville attorney who was suspended from the practice of law in 2017 after she handed over more than $30,000 in client funds to fraudsters posing as an investment firm has now been disbarred after she admitted to engaging in ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin made six appointments to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission on Feb. 27. Martin named Seth Edwards, district attorney for Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Tyrell and Washington counties; Ashley Welch, district attorney for ...

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  An inconspicuous house, tucked away in a cul-de-sac just a few miles to the Charlotte side of Lake Wylie, is at the center of a legal odyssey, one that started with barely $200 in unpaid homeowners’ association dues. Then ...

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The North Carolina House has once again approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit private entities from harnessing the government’s power of eminent domain. The proposed amendment would provide that “Private property shall not be taken by eminent domain ...

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North Carolina’s legislature has repealed a law that would have caused the state’s Court of Appeals to lose three of its 15 judges. Gov. Roy Cooper signed the bill, SB 75, into law Feb. 27, the same day that it ...

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