North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Prominent Washington lawyer Greg Craig was found not guilty of lying to the Justice Department about work he did for the government of Ukraine in a case that arose from the special counsel’s Russia investigation and that centered on the ...

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Police in North Carolina say a suspect has been arrested in the death of the man who was convicted in the 2002 death of NBA star Chris Paul’s grandfather. The Winston-Salem Journal reports 31-year-old Joseph Anthony Hannah was taken into ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina judicial panel has rejected the state’s legislative district maps, finding that legislators took extreme advantage in drawing voting districts to help elect a maximum number of Republican lawmakers. The judges gave lawmakers two weeks ...

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By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a ...

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A North Carolina woman has been awarded $3.2 million in a libel and revenge porn lawsuit against her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. A jury on Monday sided with Elizabeth Ann Clark in her case against U.S. Army Maj. Adam ...

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Jewelry maker Alex and Ani has dropped its $1.2 billion discrimination lawsuit against Bank of America that had alleged “gender bias and greed.” The Providence Journal reports the Rhode Island company agreed to voluntarily dismiss the suit after reaching a ...

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A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school’s former headmaster that he was unjustly fired and then slandered by the author. Jurors ...

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada isn’t giving up its push to get the Trump administration to remove weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly shipped to a site near Las Vegas last year, learning from an appeals court defeat and planning a ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina hospital is trying to recover at least $1.8 million after it says a project to replace 600 windows went horribly wrong. The latest lawsuit involving the window project at the Regional Medical Center ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The private Christian school that novelist Nicholas Sparks founded in his North Carolina hometown was gripped by one small crisis after another and demanding too much of his attention until ...

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