North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Defendants who prevail in an action in small claims court can’t bring any compulsory counterclaims that would exceed that court’s jurisdictional limit via an appeal since another avenue for relief already exists, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

Tagged with: Landlord/Tenant

  A Wake County man who was convicted of first-degree murder is entitled to a new trial because the trial judge allowed racially-charged statements from the prosecution during closing arguments that biased the jury, a divided North Carolina Court of ...

Tagged with: Race Discrimination

Seventeen female residents of Wilkes County have settled allegations that an area realtor sexually harassed them for $600,000. The case was brought by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina against ...

Tagged with: Sexual Harassment

  A teen who was permanently and totally disabled in a car wreck while working for his family’s business has settled a workers’ compensation claim for $3.85 million, his attorney reports. Matthew Sullivan of White and Allen in Kinston represented ...

Tagged with: Workers Compensation

  George Daniel is a small town attorney working in Yanceyville. His four-attorney firm, Daniel Thomas, is typical of many firms its size in that a large part of Daniel’s time, as managing partner, goes toward administrative tasks. He said ...

Tagged with: Business

  A film festival’s use of a stylized photo of a Washington D.C. neighborhood known for its vibrant nightlife was not a fair use that protected the festival from lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: Copyright

  The family of a 17-year-old girl who committed suicide while being held at the Durham County Detention Center has settled a lawsuit for $650,000 and the promise of sweeping changes designed to prevent similar deaths from occurring in the ...

A trial court can’t use aggravating sentencing factors in a DWI case if prosecutors fail to inform the defendant of their intentions to use them as required by state law, even if the factors were introduced in an earlier proceeding, ...

Tagged with: dwi

Bar exam results are in, and for the first time in several years, the majority of candidates who sat for the North Carolina bar exam in February can start making plans to get sworn into the practice of law. In ...

A federal judge in North Carolina has granted a preliminary injunction ordering that the state’s Department of Public Safety provide Hepatitis C treatment to three inmates who sued prison officials, claiming that DPS is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act ...

Tagged with: hepatitis