North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Iredell County court officials have announced that due to COVID-19 exposures at the Iredell County Hall of Justice in Statesville, most courts in the county will be canceled for the week of November 2-6, according to a press release from ...

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order Wednesday preventing landlords from evicting tenants who are unable to pay their rent. The order, which aims to clarify an existing ...

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By MARK SHERMAN and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day. The justices, by a 5-3 vote Wednesday, ...

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While many states require employers to give their employees time off to vote, North Carolina isn’t one of them. But in what many are calling the most important election year in decades, some North Carolina law firms are encouraging their ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The options to vote in North Carolina are dwindling as Election Day nears. Voters who wanted to cast a traditional mail-in absentee ballot had until 5 p.m. Tuesday to request one through their county board or ...

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The Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough will be closed through Nov. 9 due to COVID-19 exposure, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts has announced. “We are working quickly to protect the health of those who work in the ...

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses a doctor of secretly inserting a device into a woman during surgery that she claims stopped her from getting pregnant. The decision against Kimberly Bryant’s lawsuit ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina-based company under contract to maintain state-owned rest areas will pay more than $39,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said. A news release from the commission on Oct. 23 ...