North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin appointed two new chief district court judges in the past two weeks. Judge Thomas Brittain Jr. took over as chief district court judge for Judicial District 29B  on June 29 and Judge Judith Daniels ...

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North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission Executive Director Lindsey Smith was recently appointed as a member of a group working to develop a plan to test sexual assault kits. NC Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik A. Hooks made the appointment. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s congressional map is still unconstitutional, election advocacy groups and Democrats wrote July 11, even though the U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a lower court decision that threw out the map due to excessive partisanship. But lawyers ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina prison officials are agreeing to pay a $190,000 penalty for failing to keep track of prescription drugs that had the potential of being diverted to inmates. Federal prosecutors said July 11 that the dozens of lapses occurred ...

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LUMBERTON (AP) Authorities have arrested a North Carolina man in a cold case murder and rape which occurred in California 31 years ago. The Robeson County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release 62-year-old Kevin Thomas Ford of St. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh returned to Capitol Hill July 11 for a whirlwind round of meetings with key Republican senators as Democrats ramped up efforts to block his confirmation. Kavanaugh, the conservative appellate court judge President Donald Trump ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Early voting sites this fall in at least two North Carolina counties will be decided by state officials after local boards couldn’t agree on hours or locations. Media outlets reported the Wake and Orange election boards deadlocked July ...

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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) A North Carolina school system plans to finish security upgrades at all 52 public elementary schools before school starts next month. Cumberland County’s assistant superintendent for auxiliary services, Tim Kinlaw, tells the Fayetteville Observer that the school system’s 18 middle ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Gov. Roy Cooper has signed the only piece of legislation the North Carolina General Assembly had on his desk when it adjourned — one that restored early in-person voting on the Saturday before Election Day this year only. ...

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BEULAVILLE (AP) Republican politicians are heading to an eastern North Carolina farm to talk about why they’re worried litigation involving hog farms could harm the state’s economy. A top GOP legislator says Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, state Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler ...

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