North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where defendants were granted reductions in their terms of supervised release under the First Step Act, the district court erred in not providing explanations for its decisions. Background Timothy McDonald, Anthony Ballard and Riccardo Mercellus Davey appeal district court orders ...

Where a man who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was barred from working in “any type of employment without the prior approval of the probation officer,” and no explanation was provided for why this restriction was relevant to ...

Although a fuel supplier had already entered into a settlement agreement with a vessel charterer who failed to pay for fuel, that settlement did not prevent the supplier from enforcing a maritime lien against the vessel. Background Addax Energy SA ...

Where a food manufacturer prevailed on its breach of contract counterclaim because its contract with a food buyer was unambiguous, the decision was affirmed. The decision found that even if the contract was ambiguous, it led to the same result, ...

A woman convicted of 17 financial crimes unsuccessfully argued that an order requiring her to forfeit over $14 million to the government was improper for multiple reasons, including that it violated the Eighth Amendment. Background Following a jury trial, Dawn ...

Where an administrative law judge is required to analyze six factors before rejecting a treating physician’s opinion, and the ALJ here did not analyze or apply the factors before discounting a medical opinion concerning a woman’s medical impairments and ability ...

Although a website operator began using “ipad” three years before Apple released its iPad in 2010, because Apple acquired use of the mark from another company that predated the website operator’s use, the mark obtained secondary meaning and Apple qualified ...

The former headmaster of a faith-based school founded by a bestselling novelist, whose employment and defamation claims were rejected by the trial court and jury, failed to show the court committed error by refusing to allow certain testimony, imposing a ...

Because the Virginia legislature has conferred broad authority on local governing bodies to engage in anticompetitive conduct in the EMS vehicle services market, antitrust claims against the City of Richmond, stemming from its denial of an ambulance company’s permit to ...

Where a patent attorney who was a shareholding partner and equal owner of the firm, was compensated according to the firm’s profits and losses, enjoyed a high degree of independence and could only be terminated by a majority of the ...