North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of parts of a trial judge’s recent order that demanded $1.75 billion in state taxpayer funds be spent — without express legislative approval — to address public education ...
Read More »New judges named in Meck. Co., District 11 
Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Kimberly Best to serve as a superior court judge in Judicial District 26B (Mecklenburg County). Best will fill the vacant seat created by the retirement of Judge W. Robert Bell. She had served as a ...
Read More »Statewide database on police use of force won’t be public
RALEIGH (AP) — Incidents in which police officers kill or injure someone in North Carolina are going to be recorded statewide for the first time in a database. But the information will not be made available to the public. WRAL ...
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Read More »N.C. state controller wants education spending order halted
RALEIGH (AP) — The chief bookkeeper for North Carolina state government’s finances has asked an appeals court to block a trial judge’s recent decision that ordered her and other officials to allocate $1.75 billion to address education inequities. An attorney ...
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Read More »High court to consider if GOP leaders can join voter ID suit
RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider whether North Carolina Republican legislative leaders can intervene in a federal court battle over a 2018 state voter ID mandate. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil ...
Read More »Judge throws out lawsuit from N.C. police shooting
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a North Carolina police officer of needlessly escalating a 2019 standoff before fatally shooting a Black man. Senior U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen on Friday threw ...
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Read More »Jan. 6 panel eyes Meadows contempt vote but ‘won’t rush’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection says there is still time for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to comply with a subpoena before the panel moves forward ...
Read More »Lawyers in the News – Nov. 22
Poyner Spruill has announced the addition of an education law practice group to the firm. The practice group will be comprised of nine attorneys who come to the firm from Schwartz & Shaw in Raleigh. Partners Katie Cornetto, Rachel Hitch, Brandon McPherson, and Brian ...
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Read More »Group says state kept magazines from inmates
RALEIGH (AP) — A human rights group is suing the North Carolina Department of Public Safety alleging its staff censors magazines inmates receive by mail, especially those with articles about prison misconduct. Human Rights Defense Center in Florida filed the ...
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Read More »N.C. math experts, voters sue over redistricting
RALEIGH (AP) — Another lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s latest round of redistricting has been filed, this time by a conservation group, university mathematicians and voters who accuse Republican mapmakers of illegal partisan and racial gerrymandering. The litigation, spearheaded by the ...
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