North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The North Carolina Judicial Branch has published its first statewide “self-help packet” for couples who want a simple divorce. The new divorce packet is accessible online and provides guidance for people who want a divorce without claims for equitable distribution ...

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The case is about the conduct of a group of companies in two Ohio counties, but far more than that is riding on the first federal trial on the opioid crisis, expected to open Monday in Cleveland. The counties are ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a new poll say U.S. Supreme Court justices base their decisions on the law rather than politics. The Marquette University Law School poll released Monday found 64% of respondents said they ...

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The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether states can prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to get a job. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Kansas’ appeal of a state court ruling that threw out three ...

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A North Carolina court has upheld a man’s first-degree murder and arson convictions in the death of an Army veteran set on fire in a hotel room. The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected arguments by Garry Joseph Gupton, ...

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The federal government does not have to restart construction on a nuclear fuel facility in South Carolina that it abandoned after spending nearly $8 billion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The justices refused without comment to hear South Carolina’s ...

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Trey Gowdy swore he’d had enough of Washington. Disgusted by what he’d seen, the Republican congressman from South Carolina retired from office last year, declaring his skills are better used “in a courtroom than in Congress.” Now he’s coming back ...

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BY ROSS NORTON The incorporated offspring of Eugenia Duke are feuding. Maybe we don’t know which came first — the sandwich or the mayonnaise that made them special — but according to the Duke’s Mayonnaise website, the progeny of Eugenia ...

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A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, with one conservative justice wondering if the court should take heed of “massive social upheaval” that could follow a ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center. The denial Monday by the nation’s highest court ...

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