North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Comedian and actor Kevin Hart will avoid liability in a suit brought by former business partners who claimed that their video game launch was torpedoed by Hart’s admission of an extramarital affair, following a decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is praising federal courts nationwide for their flexibility in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledging in his annual year-end report the role technology has played in keeping courts running. The high ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has ruled in favor of a baseball team that was sued after a foul ball struck an 11-year-old girl in the face. The Raleigh News & Observer reported Thursday that the North ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Domestic violence protection orders issued by North Carolina judges to keep apart people in abusive or frightening dating relationships must be granted in same-sex cases as well, a divided state appeals court panel ruled Thursday. North Carolina ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Paul Newby is now on the job as head of North Carolina’s judicial branch. Newby took the oath for chief justice of the state Supreme Court early Friday, shortly after midnight at a small ceremony at his ...

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An investiture ceremony for newly-elected North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby and Associate Justices Phil Berger Jr. and Tamara Patterson Barringer will be held virtually on Jan. 6, the North Carolina Administrative Offices of the Courts has announced. ...

State Rep. Darren Jackson has been appointed to a seat on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Jackson will fill the vacancy created by Phil Berger Jr., who was elected to the state’s Supreme Court. “Darren Jackson has spent his ...

In one of her final official acts, outgoing North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley announced the creation of the Chief Justice’s Commission on Fairness and Equity. The commission, created by an order of the Supreme Court in October, ...

Judge Donna Stroud has been sworn in as the new chief judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, taking the helm of an appellate court that hears more than 1,500 appeals a year, and thousands more motions and petitions. Stroud has served ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Former state Sen. Marc Basnight, a Democrat from North Carolina’s barrier islands who became one of North Carolina’s most powerful contemporary political leaders while serving a record 18 years as Senate leader, died Monday. He was 73. ...

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