North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a defendant convicted on numerous racketeering counts was originally sentenced to 570 months’ in prison, but one count constituting a 360-month component was later vacated, the new 360-month sentence was not unreasonable given his role in the offenses and ...

Where a railroad that was party to a guaranteed shipping contract did not expressly breach the agreement, but a jury could have found that its conduct violated the duty of good faith and fair dealing, the declaratory judgment against it ...

Where the resident of El Salvador was only 15 when members of the MS-13 gang beat him and made death threats, the immigration court erred by not taking his age into account when analyzing his past persecution and fear of ...

Where a defendant was only 15 years old when he participated in a series of violent carjackings, including one resulting in death, the district court’s imposition of a 52-year sentence was not unreasonable as it considered a variety of factors, ...

Where the defendant moved to vacate his conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and drug trafficking because it relied in part on a now invalid predicate offense, but the statement of facts in his plea agreement ...

Where former employees of national security agencies voluntarily signed agreements giving the agencies prepublication review of certain materials they intend to publish, they knowingly waived their First Amendment rights to challenge the requirement that they submit materials for review. Moreover, ...

Where a jury awarded $22.35 million to a healthcare investor because he was defamed by a biotechnology company, but the jury did not receive evidence sufficient to support the award, the award was vacated and the case was remanded for ...

Where Justin Fairfax, the Virginia lieutenant governor, failed to plead facts plausibly suggesting that CBS aired reports of two women who accused him of sexual assault with a “high degree of awareness” that he likely did not assault them, his ...

Where the City of Baltimore’s aerial surveillance program likely violates the Fourth Amendment by allowing the tracking of individuals without a warrant, its continued operation was enjoined. Background Plaintiffs moved to enjoin implementation of the Aerial Investigation Research, or AIR, ...

Where the record showed that Aetna exercised discretionary authority or control over the management of a plan so as to potentially make it a fiduciary, and evidence suggested Aetna breached its fiduciary duties by not disclosing fees, a policyholder’s surcharge, ...