North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Police in North Carolina say a middle school student who poked other students with a small needle that diabetes patients use to prick their fingers has been charged. Ayden police tell news outlets a sixth grader was charged with five ...

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Police in North Carolina say they can’t find the white woman recorded threatening her black neighbors while they waited for AAA. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tell news outlets they attempted to serve a warrant Tuesday on 51-year-old Susan Westwood for misusing 911. ...

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The world’s largest pork producer says it plans to install covers over pig waste lagoons at most of its North Carolina hog farms. WRAL-TV reports Smithfield Foods also says in a Thursday statement it would install new “low trajectory” tools ...

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A federal appeals court panel says a trial judge went too far with a gag order that forbid lawyers or virtually anyone with knowledge of conditions at North Carolina hog operations from sharing information with reporters or on social media. ...

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A North Carolina county’s chief district court judge says he’ll stop having juveniles wear restraints in his courtroom, days after local news reports covered the practice. The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun published a story last week on Durham ...

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North Carolina’s highest court says it will hear arguments on whether the legislature can trim judgeships from the state’s intermediate-level appeals court through attrition. The state Supreme Court says it will take up litigation from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper against ...

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has directed a commission to study the portraits hanging inside its courtroom amid a complaint about one of a pro-slavery judge. The News & Observer reported Thursday that the state’s top court formed a commission tasked with ...

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The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of her congregation. Jane Whaley, leader of the Word of Faith ...

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The Latest on the investigation of the fatal shooting of a North Carolina state trooper (all times local): 1:35 p.m. A prosecutor says a second person is facing a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a North Carolina state ...

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Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.” O’Connor made the announcement in a letter. The 88-year-old said her diagnosis was made some time ago ...

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