North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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Where restaurant employees claimed that tips and automatic gratuities could not be considered in determining whether their employer met its obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, it was error to apply a statutory exemption—29 U.S.C. § 207(i)—to ...

Where a former Columbian police officer and his family were subjected to at least five threats of death and harm from January to May 2013 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the Board of Immigration Appeals erred ...

  Where defendant was served with a subpoena to testify in an assault on a female case, the trial court could find her in criminal contempt for failing to appear. Defendant’s failure to appear was equivalent to a willful refusal ...

  Even if defendant’s girlfriend, and not defendant, drove the car while the victim was being kidnapped so he could be robbed at gunpoint, since there was evidence that defendant deceived the victim into believing defendant would take the victim ...

  Defendant sought to cross-examine the minor victim’s mother about her immigration status because she might have had a motive to fabricate allegations of abuse to avoid possible deportation. However, defendant has not demonstrated how fabricating sexual abuse would allow ...

  Where there was evidence that a person in a red and black hoodie walked towards a Wilmington residence on Fowler Street around the time the residence was broken into and later walked away from the residence carrying a bag, ...

  Where defendant was convicted of embezzling $202,242.62—over two times more than the $100,000 threshold for Class C felony embezzlement under G.S. § 14-90(c)—both the ratio between the amount embezzled and the statutory threshold, as well as the total amount ...

  Where the state’s evidence, including surveillance video footage, showed (1) defendant with his brother and with his friend Octavious, (2) defendant holding a gun, (3) defendant’s brother instructing Octavious and defendant to collect money that the victim owed defendant’s ...

  Screenshots of Facebook comments were required to be authenticated both as photographs and as written statements. In this case, the victim’s testimony satisfied both requirements. The trial court did not err in admitting the screenshots of Facebook posts into ...