North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated a law professor who previously worked as a prosecutor, defense attorney and journalist to fill the nation’s longest federal judiciary vacancy. Trump nominated Richard E. Myers on Wednesday to be a ...

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  A Virginia judge has blocked a lawsuit filed by the CEO of a now-defunct and discredited lab company that accused a big national law firm—which had announced only a day earlier that it would begin winding down its own ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A lawsuit challenging the new way of electing District Court judges in North Carolina’s largest county says the law divides the county into two predominant racial groups and sorts the voters into districts by race. The ...

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office has charged a man with spiking his wife’s rum with methamphetamine after she told him she wanted a divorce. The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office tells news outlets that the woman ...

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SANFORD, N.C. (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina is suing over his firing, saying he lost his job because his religious beliefs prevented him from training a woman. The Sanford Herald reports that Lee County Deputy Manuel ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein have formally asked North Carolina judges to quickly strike down dozens of legislative districts drawn by Republicans that are at the center of a partisan gerrymandering lawsuit. The ...

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Kilpatrick Townsend has announced that partners John Erwin, Brian Brown, and Angela Cottrell, and associate Sarah Beth Barnes, have joined the firm’s Raleigh office, where they will be members of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team. The four attorneys come ...

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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say a lawyer with a suspended license has been arrested on charges he threatened to kill county judges. News outlets report that Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies arrested 48-year-old Dee Wayne Bray Jr. on ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two men involved in an armed carjacking in North Carolina have each been sentenced to a more than decade in prison. The Charlotte-based U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release that De’Asion ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state elections board declined Thursday to decide whether the next generation of voting machines should be required to furnish a paper printout so voters can read and confirm their ballots. One-third of North Carolina’s 100 ...

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