North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A railroad company that is wholly owned by the state of North Carolina but operates as an independent corporation isn’t subject to the state’s Public Records Act, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled in a case of first ...

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the July 2020 North Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to recognize those who passed ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina district attorney and a police department are looking into cases of false evidence being used in more than a dozen drug arrests, according to a report. Both Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elections board won’t try to stop enforcement of a court ruling that would allow more convicted felons to vote this fall, state Attorney General Josh Stein announced Thursday. Legislators still could appeal last week’s ...

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ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — No charges will be filed against a North Carolina police officer who fatally shot a Black man who pointed a sawed-off shotgun at the officer, a district attorney said Wednesday. Person County District Attorney Mike Waters ...

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By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is preparing to again release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, one that voters can compare to rival Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the ...

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Inmates whose detentions were prolonged by attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Corrections’ erroneous analysis of state sentencing law won’t be able to bring a civil rights lawsuit against those attorneys because the attorneys were shielded by the doctrine ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats said Tuesday they will investigate whether Postmaster General Louis DeJoy encouraged employees at his former business to contribute to Republican candidates and then reimbursed them in the guise of bonuses, a violation of campaign finance ...

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By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press A North Carolina court ruled Friday that outstanding restitution, fees or other court-imposed monetary obligations can’t prevent convicted felons from voting if they’ve completed all other portions of their sentence. The ruling, which may face ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina legislature finalized a plan Thursday to spend $1.1 billion of the state’s remaining COVID-19 relief funds from Washington, including direct cash payments to nearly 2 million families. ...

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