North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has extended through June 6 an earlier order declaring that catastrophic conditions resulting from Hurricane Florence continue to exist in Jones County. The May 8 order allows the superior and district courts ...

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Jason H. Coats of Four Oaks a district court judge in Judicial District 11 (Harnett, Johnston and Lee counties), his office announced May 14. Coats will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided May 13 that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions. The outcome ...

HALIFAX (AP) — The state’s highest court will hear cases involving murder, robbery and a pirate ship when it holds sessions in eastern North Carolina as part of its bicentennial. The court will hear two cases each in Halifax on ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina legislators were not just sneaky when they took surprise action and cut Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s powers before he took office, they violated the state constitution, plaintiffs told a state appeals panel May 9. The ...

Seventeen female residents of Wilkes County have settled allegations that an area realtor sexually harassed them for $600,000. The case was brought by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina against ...

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When Cheslie Kryst, an attorney with Poyner Spruill in Charlotte, spoke with Lawyers Weekly about her preparations to compete in the Miss USA pageant shortly before the competition, she said that her most intensive practice was going into preparing for ...

RALEIGH (AP) — About 10,000 North Carolina households and several hundred businesses and government buildings are expected to gain high-speed internet access through the first grants issued by a new state broadband initiative. State leaders announced this week that nearly ...

DURHAM (AP) — A North Carolina probation officer has been fired over allegations that he had offenders on house arrest pay for additional time outside, saying they had to “pay to play.” The Charlotte Observer reports a state Department of ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina House and Senate are trying to pass dozens of bills before a self-imposed deadline designed to winnow policy ideas with enough support from those that lack it. The General Assembly set May 9 as ...