North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  As North Carolina celebrated Court Reporting and Captioning Week from Feb. 9-16, several court reporters said there will soon be a high demand in the state for the profession as more and more workers reach retirement age. Indeed, across ...

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  The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay a Union County family $1.2 million after taking 3.21 acres of land and several easements to develop the Monroe Bypass, the family’s attorneys report. Jeremy Hopkins and Brady Wells of Cranfill ...

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  Disputed evidence on whether an employee who struggles with mobility could have performed her job without extensive travel, whether the employer lacked a reasonable belief she could engage in such travel and whether she was terminated because of her ...

  Defense attorneys who represented a man sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder failed to investigate signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in the case; their admission that they did not provide this potentially mitigating evidence prompts a new trial. ...

  Statistics show that North Carolina’s courts are not as diverse as the populations they serve. Several studies conducted in the last 20 years have suggested that beyond increasing public trust in the judiciary, creating a more proportionally diverse judicial ...

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  The federal government has agreed not to continue appealing claims that a private contractor committed fraud under the False Claims Act after the contractor was granted summary judgment in federal court in North Carolina’s eastern district, defense attorneys report. ...

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  The North Carolina Department of Transportation Turnpike Authority has settled with a Union County land developer for $1.88 million for land that was taken to build the Monroe Bypass, a lawyer for the owner reports. Stephanie Autry of Cranfill ...

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  A husband and wife who suffered severe injuries when a car pulled into the path of their motorcycle have settled a personal injury lawsuit for $950,000, their attorneys report. Bob Karney of the Karney Law Firm in Charlotte reported ...

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  In keeping with the holding of In re Civil Penalty, individual panels of the North Carolina Court of Appeals cannot disregard existing precedent just because the panel believes it improperly narrowed or distinguished another earlier precedent, the North Carolina ...

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  The North Carolina Department of Transportation Turnpike Authority has settled with a self-storage facility in Matthews for $3.29 million over a disagreement over the value of a piece of property that was taken to build a new highway, a ...

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