North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued an order extending all appellate court deadlines that fall between March 27 and April 30. The March 27 order extends these deadlines for 60 days and also encourages electronic filing and credits back ...

Almost every other intra-collegiate competition has been cancelled this spring, but one March tradition has endured, with U.S. News & World Report releasing the 2021 installment of its annual Best Law School Rankings. The University of North Carolina School of ...

North Carolina’s deputy solicitor general, Ryan Park, will become the state’s new solicitor general after current solicitor general Matt Sawchak leaves the position on March 31, the North Carolina Department of Justice has announced. Sawchak has served as solicitor general ...

The respondent-mother’s children were removed from her care because of substance abuse, mental health, and domestic violence issues, none of which she resolved. Indeed, the mother was unemployed, relied on her mother to meet her expenses, lived in a storage ...

After many positive drug tests and no progress on her case plan, respondent’s parental rights were terminated. Respondent’s counsel has filed a no-merit brief pursuant to N.C. R. App. P. 3.1(e). Counsel advised respondent of her right to file a ...

On a prior appeal, we remanded for the trial court to make findings regarding the willfulness of the respondent-mother’s failure to interact with the minor child, given domestic violence protective orders prohibiting respondent from contacting the minor child’s father, a ...

The trial court granted one defendant’s motion to dismiss, but plaintiff’s claims against other defendants remain pending. According to the allegations of the complaint, the liability of the defendants is not joint; rather, the liability of the dismissed defendant is ...

In 1986, the parties were living together, and plaintiff arranged for land she had paid for to be titled in defendant’s name. Given plaintiff’s multiple requests that defendant deed the property back to her; defendant’s consistent refusals; the fact that ...

A commercial lease gave the defendant-tenant the option to extend the lease “by giving Landlord prior written notice, at least six (6) months in advance of Expiration Date, or Tenant’s election to extend the term; it being agreed that time ...

Defendant asserted that his trial judge (1) was a former assistant district attorney who prosecuted him for one of the offenses that now serves as a conviction supporting his habitual felon indictment, (2) is married to a former Iredell County ...