North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By DAVID CRARY and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to countries “from which they came” has excited some in his political base. Yet in ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A few dozen computer files recovered from the home of a deceased Republican redistricting consultant can be offered as evidence in next week’s partisan gerrymandering trial in North Carolina, state judges ruled on Friday. The three-judge ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A partisan gerrymandering trial began Monday in North Carolina, where election advocacy groups and Democrats hope state courts will favor them in the kind of political mapmaking dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court just declared is ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Chances that a North Carolina budget standoff between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is soon resolved appear small enough that GOP legislators are looking to spend more funds to keep state government humming. Negotiations between ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina state court trial on whether legislative districts are illegal partisan gerrymanders starts just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it wasn’t the purview of federal courts to decide if boundaries are politically unfair. ...

Bob Hagemann has joined Poyner Spruill as a partner in its Raleigh office, where he will join the firm’s local government practice as of Aug 1. Hagemann spent 24 years as an attorney with the City of Charlotte, most recently as City ...

ASHEVILLE (AP) — A North Carolina district attorney says the family of a murder victim has persuaded prosecutors to drop the death penalty for a man convicted of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and permanently injuring her 3-year-old son. Ashville Citizen-Times ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Debate over a narrow spending package to help North Carolina’s government operate in the new fiscal year turned into finger-pointing over a broader budget impasse. The House on July 10 unanimously approved what Republican budget-writers call a ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A bill easing requirements to wipe some criminal records clean is advancing through North Carolina’s legislature. The measure that cleared the House Judiciary Committee on July 10 automates expunctions for criminal charges that don’t result in convictions and ...