The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud. The court’s 6-2 ruling Wednesday affirms an appeals court decision against investment banker Francis Lorenzo over ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t step in to referee a copyright dispute between Nike and a photographer who took a well-known image of basketball great Michael Jordan. That means lower court rulings for the athletic apparel maker will ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of getting federal judges involved in determining when electoral district maps are too partisan. The high court heard more than two hours of arguments in two cases involving the issue. During the first case, ...
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Read More »Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the U.S. government to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that a technician falsified data to obtain lung research funding from federal agencies. The university announced the settlement March 25 as the ...
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Read More »Haynes and Boone has announced the hiring of three attorneys in the firm’s newly opened Charlotte office. Justin Riess focuses his practice on leveraged finance, specialty finance, private equity finance, and syndicated lending and had previously been a partner at ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply troubled by a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding African-American jurors, the Supreme Court seemed in broad agreement on March 20 that a black death row inmate’s conviction and death sentence at his sixth murder trial could ...
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Read More »North Carolina Lawyers Weekly was honored with three awards for exemplary journalism at the North Carolina Press Association’s 2019 annual convention on March 21. Lawyers Weekly won first prize in its division for Election/Political Reporting for its reporting on the ...
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Read More »DURHAM (AP) — An autopsy says natural causes claimed the life of a North Carolina prosecutor found dead at home last year amid attention over “The Staircase” documentary series. Freda Black helped prosecute the 2001 killing examined by the documentary. ...
Read More »Gerrymandering is on trial as the U.S. Supreme Court and judges in a dozen states consider whether mapmakers — typically state lawmakers — have gone too far in manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts for their own advantage. The high ...
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Read More »Authorities in a North Carolina county say some, but not all, services have been restored after a ransomware virus led to a shutdown of its entire computer network. Orange County officials said Wednesday that staffers have disinfected 20 of the ...
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