North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Lawmakers who want to reform the redistricting process in North Carolina say uncertainty over pending map litigation and the shaky balance of power at the legislature make them more optimistic their ideas will be voted on this year. House Democrats ...

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 The arrest of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in North Carolina last week has prompted two Latino advocacy groups to establish a legal fund. The News & Observer reports Durham’s El Hispano Centro and Siler City’s The Hispanic Liaison announced Monday that they’ve ...

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North Carolina taxpayers are paying three former inmates at one of the state’s most dangerous prisons $62,500 to settle lawsuits claiming the former warden and supervisors wouldn’t clamp down on murderous gangs who terrorized them. They were among five inmates ...

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A state criminal justice panel is urging more police training, building vulnerability assessments and school violence data to help make North Carolina’s K-12 schools safer. A special committee within the Governor’s Crime Commission released its report Thursday, with more than ...

Judge Marion Warren is resigning as director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts effective Feb. 28 to become senior associate dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the AOC announced Feb. 6. Warren ...

A number of black lawmakers in South Carolina briefly walked out of judicial elections Wednesday after the Legislature elected a white attorney who has never been a judge to the state Court of Appeals over an African-American woman who has ...

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Since the start of 2017, The Associated Press has tallied at least 90 state lawmakers who have faced public allegations or repercussions over sexual misconduct claims. Most of those cases became public since the #MeToo movement gained momentum in October ...

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Smith Anderson in Raleigh has announced Jordan Fieldstein, Brandon Heffinger, Tim McKeever, David Pasley, Casey Vaughn, Kendra White, Cameron Williamson and Patrick Wilson as new associates. Hall Booth Smith announced that litigator Scott MacLatchie has joined the firm as a ...

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A three-judge panel has ruled that a Charlotte man convicted of armed robbery is innocent. Israel Grant is now free after the panel overturned his conviction for a 2005 robbery. The panel made the decision after a hearing in Mecklenburg ...

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The defrauding of the elderly tops the Top 10 list of consumer complaints that the North Carolina Department of Justice received in 2018, according to the DOJ’s annual report. In all, there were 19,022 complaints reported to the DOJ in ...

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