North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Chief Justice Paul Newby has selected new chief district court judges in two counties, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts announced on July 8. Newby selected Judge Ned W. Mangum to serve as chief district court judge for ...

President Joe Biden has nominated Virginia Solicitor General Toby J. Heytens to a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The nomination now goes to the U.S. Senate for confirmation. Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Mark Warner and Tim ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley of North Carolina raised nearly $1.3 million in little more than two months since she entered the race in April, her campaign announced on July 7. The former state Supreme Court ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used an audio recorder for note-taking purposes at a murder trial — a punishment the paper and ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Jesse Caldwell IV to serve as superior court judge for Judicial District 27A (Gaston County). Caldwell will fill the vacant seat formerly held by Jesse B. Caldwell III. Caldwell is the chief juvenile public defender ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered California to stop collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities, calling the state’s requirement a “dragnet for sensitive donor information.” The justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Flexing its new strength, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday cut back on a landmark voting rights law in a decision likely to help Republican states fight challenges to voting restrictions they’ve put in place following ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Six North Carolina Republican officials voted on Tuesday to end statewide eviction protections for renters starting Thursday, rejecting Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to extend the state’s eviction moratorium by one month. Cooper’s administration warns the move ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Children as young as 6 can be prosecuted in North Carolina juvenile court — the lowest age set by law in the country — but a bipartisan effort would raise the minimum age of delinquency to 10 ...

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DURHAM N.C. (AP) — Electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc. will pay $40 million to North Carolina and take more action to prevent underage use and sales, according to a landmark legal settlement announced Monday after years of accusations that ...

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