North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — like computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student athletes. The case doesn’t decide whether students can be paid ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, though increasingly conservative in makeup, rejected the latest major Republican-led effort to kill the national health care law known as “Obamacare” on Thursday, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans. The justices, by a ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with food giants Nestle and Cargill on Thursday and threw out a lawsuit that claimed they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in Africa that used child slave labor. The justices ruled 8-1 ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In another victory for religious groups at the Supreme Court, the justices on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples. The court said ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Timothy Gould as a superior court judge in Judicial District 19C (Rowan County) and Cull Jordan III as a district court judge in Judicial District 12 (Cumberland County). Gould will fill the seat vacated by ...

A man who was released from prison last year after serving 44 years in prison for a rape he says he didn’t commit is now suing the city of Concord, its police department, and the State Bureau of Investigation, alleging that law enforcement concealed an investigation file from prosecutors and his defense attorneys during his 1976 trial. Ronnie Long, 65, accuses investigators of lying at his trial and ignoring his “airtight alibi.” The recently discovered file ...

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court judge accused of nearly striking Black Lives Matter protesters in downtown Fayetteville with an SUV has had his case dismissed because prosecutors said they could not find evidence of a crime. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that low-level crack cocaine offenders convicted more than a decade ago can’t take advantage of a 2018 federal law to seek reduced prison time. The justices affirmed the nearly 16-year prison ...

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A recent survey of senior in-house legal and human resources decision-makers shows that many companies, including law firms, have held steady or seen increased business during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “During the pandemic, much has changed,” said Matt Keen, managing shareholder of Ogletree ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A judge didn’t step over the line when she refused to let North Carolina’s legislative leaders formally defend the state’s latest photo identification voting law with other state government attorneys, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. A ...

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