South Carolina will receive $4.5 million as its share of a $120 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson for falsely stating the longevity of its metal-on-metal hip implants, causing serious medical problems for patients who had to have them replaced, ...
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Read More »With slightly over a week until the deadline, a North Carolina mayor says he hasn’t heard from the owners of the Confederate monument city officials want gone. The Winston-Salem Journal reports Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines said Tuesday the United Daughters ...
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Read More »William “Rick” Freeman has Manning, Fulton & Skinner in Durham. Freeman is a litigator whose expertise includes complex civil litigation, medical malpractice defense, and surety and construction claims. He was previously with Moore & Van Allen. Mark Merritt has rejoins ...
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Read More »A mistrial in a North Carolina murder case has been declared, as a juror went into premature labor after deliberations had begun. Citing a release from the Mecklenburg County district attorney’s office, The Charlotte Observer cites a release that says ...
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Read More »Homebuilders in North Carolina are suing a city over what they say were millions of dollars of unlawfully charged fees for sewer and water connections. The Charlotte Observer reports that a dozen of Charlotte’s largest homebuilders filed a class-action federal ...
Read More »North Carolina Republican legislators want to get formally involved in a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s latest voter identification law because they say Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein can’t be trusted to defend it. House Speaker ...
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Read More »More than 10 years have passed since legal scholar and researcher Randall Kiser and his colleagues published their famous study documenting how often, and at what cost, attorneys obtain a result worse than what could have been achieved by ...
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Read More »Alexander A. Bove Jr. and Melissa Langa BridgeTower Media Newswires A first generation business owner experiences immense pride in taking a moment here and there to observe what the owner has built for his or her family and the business’s ...
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Read More »A lawyer charged with helping his wife plunder money from the campaign chest of a Virginia state senator and two other organizations cannot shield his two homes from possible forfeiture, a federal appeals court ruled last month. The 4th ...
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Read More »A second North Carolina election that employed political consultants involved in the country’s last unresolved congressional race is being challenged, and the Democrat who was forced out as sheriff after an apparent narrow loss is demanding his job back. A ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
