North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A North Carolina-based adult sex toy and accessories retail chain has been sued on allegations that job applicants are denied sales jobs at stores because they are men. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit last week on ...

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North Carolina’s attorney general is the latest to file a lawsuit against the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as part of an effort to address the opioid epidemic. A lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina court names eight ...

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Authorities say the arrest of a South Carolina prison food service employee on a contraband charge appears to be related to an inmate who escaped for about 14 hours. Arrest warrants say 58-year-old Orbadella Garrett was taken into custody Sunday ...

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Benita Jones has joined Womble Bond Dickinson in the firm’s Research Triangle Park office as part of its education law sector and labor and employment teams. Jones represents university clients in administrative complaints and was previously assistant legal counsel for ...

North Carolina legislators who are redrawing dozens of General Assembly districts that judges deemed illegal partisan gerrymanders turned Monday to considering district lines generated by a key expert for those who successfully sued over the maps. The House and Senate ...

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On Jan. 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer offer updates or security support for Windows 7. As the end-of-life date draws near, the company announced that customers will “pay dearly” if they continue using Windows 7 software. “[Windows 7] does ...

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A small group of South Carolina senators held a daylong hearing Tuesday on whether South Carolina should join about a half-dozen other states in banning nearly all abortions , but the Southern state might not be ready to follow some ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Using technology to run her practice lets defense attorney Susan Williams give clients the time and attention they need. Williams decided years ago she didn’t want a large staff that would require her to increase her ...

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By ELANA SCHOR and JUANA SUMMERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Every top Democratic presidential contender is touting a detailed overhaul of the criminal justice system to end rules and practices that have been blamed for the mass incarceration of ...

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Most mass shooters in the U.S. acquired the weapons they used legally because there was nothing in their backgrounds to disqualify them, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University who has studied mass shootings for decades. But ...

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