North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2005, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow returned from work to find her husband and mother shot dead in the basement of her Chicago home. Investigators initially focused on a White Supremacist ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper didn’t need the consent of other statewide elected leaders to issue COVID-19 orders shuttering businesses, limiting assemblies and mandating face coverings, state attorneys wrote on Wednesday. Responding to a legal ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has extended several existing emergency directives that allow increased use of technology and seek to limit foot traffic in courthouses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The orders entered July 30 extend ...

A Columbus County man convicted of murder didn’t provide enough detail in his appeal to prove that prosecutors wrongly excused African-American from his jury, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming a ruling from earlier this year after ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — There isn’t enough evidence to prosecute anyone in the 2019 death of a man who had been beaten by police officers one year earlier, a North Carolina district attorney said Tuesday. An autopsy showed Kyron Hinton ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several North Carolina parents sued on Monday to halt the state’s taxpayer-funded scholarship program for K-12 children to attend private schools, saying they’re discriminated against based on their beliefs about ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has announced the appointment of three chief district court judges to fill vacancies created by retirements. Judge John R. Nance has been appointed as the new chief district court judge for Judicial ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is suing after he said he was pepper sprayed, tasered and beaten by a group of Union County sheriff’s deputies following a traffic stop. The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday that the lawsuit ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina NAACP has asked a judge to bar the use of a touch-screen voting machine in several counties due to what it says are heightened risks associated with using them during the coronavirus pandemic. ...

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The Ethics Committee of the North Carolina Bar has voted to take another significant step toward adding anti-discrimination language to the preamble to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct, voting on July 23 to send its proposed amendment to the ...