North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Election officials across the country have been dealing with a staffing crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many volunteers—who are typically older and thus at greater risk from the virus—to withdraw because of safety concerns. It’s a worrying gap, ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A campaign finance reform advocate lodged ethics complaints on Monday against two more Republican lawmakers, alleging they wrongly accepted state funds for expenses related to North Carolina legislative duties that also got paid for by their ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court, already poised to take a significant turn to the right, opened its new term Oct. 5 with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s landmark 2015 ruling striking ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opens a new term with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the ...

  Three North Carolina courthouses were closed on Oct. 2 because of COVID-19. Halifax County closed its courthouse because of confirmed cases of COVID-19 at its court facilities, according to the North Carolina Judicial Branch’s website and the county. In Catawba ...

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By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press A federal judge said Wednesday that a North Carolina elections board directive making it easier for voters to fix witness deficiencies in absentee ballots may violate a previous ruling he made and has ordered state ...

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  The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission has found sufficient evidence of factual innocence in the case of a Northampton County man who was convicted of attempted murder and setenced to at least 42 years in prison. The commission referred ...

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People who enter Wake County’s court facilities will soon have to undergo a screening for possible COVID-19 infection. Beginning Oct. 2, visitors and staff to the Wake County Courthouse, the Wake County Justice Center, and the court’s office building will ...

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By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina system reported its first coronavirus-related student death on Tuesday since several campuses reopened with at least partial in-person learning last month. Chad Dorrill, a ...

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The statewide suspension rate of Black or African American drivers is four times higher than that of white, non-Hispanic drivers, according to an analysis published by the North Carolina Pro Bono Project. The NCPBRC created “When Debt Takes the Wheel,” ...