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Criminal Practice – Speedy Trial – Barker Analysis
Defendant’s speedy trial right was not violated to warrant dismissal of the murder charge against Defendant. Defendant received a fair trial, free of reversible error. Defendant was arrested in 2016 […]
Civil Practice – Discovery Order – Request to Translate Documents to English
The trial court erred in requiring the Toyota Defendants to create and then produce English translations of certain discoverable documents. We vacated the Sanctions Order and remanded to the trial […]
Municipal – Sweepstakes – Entertaining Display
Plaintiff’s video sweepstakes game is exactly the type of electronic sweepstakes the legislature intended to prohibit by enacting Section 14-306.4. We reversed the order of the trial court granting Plaintiff’s […]
Domestic Relations – Child Support – Imputed Income
Defendant father acted in bad faith, such that income may be imputed to him for the purposes of child support. However, the trial court must determine additional findings of fact […]
Domestic Relations – Termination of Parental Rights – Future Neglect
While only one ground is necessary to support the termination of parental rights, the findings of fact support the conclusion that grounds exist to terminate Parents’ parental rights under N.C. […]
Constitutional – True Threats – False Report Concerning Mass Violence
The trial court erred in denying the juvenile’s motion to dismiss the petitions alleging offenses of communicating a threat to commit mass violence on educational property and making a false […]
Trusts & Estates – Intestate Succession of Rights of Surviving Spouse – Abandonment
Decedent’s Mother failed to present evidence to meet her burden of showing that Wife abandoned the decedent. We reversed the order of the trial court and remanded for further proceedings, […]
Domestic Relations – Domestic Violence Protection Order – Legitimate Purpose
The record and the trial court’s findings of fact support the issuance of a Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) under North Carolina General Statute Section 50B-1(a)(2). We affirmed the Amended […]
NC joins lawsuit against apartment landlords
Six large corporate landlords and the RealPage software company now face a lawsuit filed by the North Carolina Department of Justice, its counterparts in nine other states and the U.S. […]
Bar to consider candidates for District Court judge
Lawyers in the 8th Judicial District will meet later this month to choose a slate of five candidates from which Gov. Josh Stein will pick a new District Court judge, […]
Domestic Relations – Arbitration – Equitable Distribution
The trial court did not err in vacating the part of paragraph 8 that set out specific conditions requiring Husband to pay the mortgage early and did not err in […]
Civil Practice – Specific Jurisdiction – ‘Stream of Commerce’ Theory
As the trial court did not make sufficient findings of fact to support its conclusion of law that Plaintiff has not established specific jurisdiction, we could not effectively review the […]
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