North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — Two of North Carolina’s most powerful legislators took the witness stand this week in a long-running federal employee discrimination case filed by the former head of the General Assembly’s nonpartisan fiscal analysis office. House Speaker Tim Moore ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Small breweries in North Carolina could soon be toasting a new law that would give growing beer-makers in the state more time to sell their products on their own without third-party distributors. By a 38-3 vote, the ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it wants to be able to enforce an expected settlement in a federal lawsuit in North Carolina accusing neighboring research universities of conspiring to depress wages for medical professionals. The Justice Department said in ...

GREENVILLE (AP) — An attorney for a North Carolina man serving a life sentence for murder says false testimony sent her client to prison. News outlets report attorney and Duke University law professor Theresa Newman made her argument May 17 ...

A federal judge is siding with public health groups suing the Food and Drug Administration to begin reviewing thousands of e-cigarettes on the U.S. market. The ruling handed down Wednesday in district court states that the agency shirked its legal ...

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NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — A lawsuit over the rights to photos and video from the wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship is still winding its way through North Carolina courts, four years after the legal conflict began. The New ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina House is starting another round of redistricting demanded by judges who declared Republicans unnecessarily redrew a handful of districts in 2017. The House Redistricting Committee scheduled a meeting for May 16 to discuss remapping ...

North Carolina’s attorney general is suing a popular e-cigarette maker, asking a court to limit what flavors it can sell and ensure underage teens can’t buy its vaping products. Josh Stein, the top law enforcement official in the traditionally tobacco-friendly ...

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has extended through June 6 an earlier order declaring that catastrophic conditions resulting from Hurricane Florence continue to exist in Jones County. The May 8 order allows the superior and district courts ...

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Jason H. Coats of Four Oaks a district court judge in Judicial District 11 (Harnett, Johnston and Lee counties), his office announced May 14. Coats will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge ...