North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated a racially diverse and overwhelmingly female group to federal and other judgeships, including three Black women for the U.S. courts of appeals, one pathway to the Supreme Court. Biden promised as ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) — A judge in North Carolina has denied a group’s request to block the planned demolition of a monument to Confederate governor Zebulon Vance in the city of Asheville. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that the temporary restraining order ...

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Judge Barbara Milano Keenan of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has announced that she will assume senior status on Aug. 31, creating a bench vacancy to be filled by President Joe Biden. Keenan’s plan to take senior status ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a New Mexico woman who was shot by police as she drove away from them, in a case that will allow more excessive force lawsuits against police to go forward. The ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court panel will soon decide whether a libel complaint can proceed to trial over false accusations that representatives of former Gov. Pat McCrory made in 2016 alleging several voters had unlawfully cast multiple ...

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A Raleigh restaurant owner has filed a class action lawsuit against an insurance carrier that has repeatedly denied interruption coverage to businesses that were shuttered because of COVID-19. Ashley Christensen filed the lawsuit against Cincinnati Insurance Co. in the U.S. ...

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request for rehearing in the case of a woman who resigned as an equity partner from a law firm, then sought to bring a Title VII lawsuit against the firm. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is returning to a little bit of normal following a year disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the justices met in person Friday for a regularly scheduled private conference, court spokesperson Kathy Arberg ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A federal North Carolina prosecutor’s office that has been investigating allegations of voter-related fraud said on Friday that 24 more people have been charged over the past 18 months. Two of the defendants were charged earlier this ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A multibillion-dollar plan presented by North Carolina officials and designed to comply with legal rulings that declare the state has failed to meet constitutional obligations in public education is now in the hands of a judge. The ...

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