North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

People who enter Wake County’s court facilities will soon have to undergo a screening for possible COVID-19 infection. Beginning Oct. 2, visitors and staff to the Wake County Courthouse, the Wake County Justice Center, and the court’s office building will ...

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By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina system reported its first coronavirus-related student death on Tuesday since several campuses reopened with at least partial in-person learning last month. Chad Dorrill, a ...

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  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation in March, the leaders of judiciaries in every jurisdiction in the country had to take quick and drastic steps to figure out how to keep the wheels of justice turning under unprecedented ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democrat Cal Cunningham battled over the government’s COVID-19 response and a future vaccine in a debate Monday, kicking up a notch a campaign ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge refused on Friday to place more controls upon the state prison system after inmate advocates argued it wasn’t doing what he previously ordered to protect the incarcerated against COVID-19. Superior Court Judge ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina legislature finalized a plan Thursday to spend $1.1 billion of the state’s remaining COVID-19 relief funds from Washington, including direct cash payments to nearly 2 million families. ...

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  Alamance County courthouses are scheduled to reopen Tuesday, Sept. 8 after an outbreak of COVD-19 at its jail this week.  “Due to the positive cases identified at the Alamance County Detention Center, the Alamance County Judicial Leadership Team, in ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate rose in July, the state announced on Friday, even as the overall number of people working grew compared to the previous month. The 8.5% jobless rate ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Certain touch-screen ballot-marking machines will remain in use in North Carolina this fall, a judge ruled in a case in which voters questioned the equipment’s accuracy and health risks during ...

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The North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services has launched a new online Public Defense Portal for North Carolina defense attorneys.  The portal will become the primary means of communication from the office to the defense bar about issues including ...

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