North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Tagged with: religious discrimination

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 ...

Tagged with: Carjacking

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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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has dismissed charges against two students accused of disorderly conduct and defacing a public monument after placing Ku Klux Klan hoods on statues at a Confederate monument. N.C. State students Enzo Niebuhr ...

Tagged with: Confederate monument

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man faces charges of carrying a concealed handgun into North Carolina’s legislative building, which this year implemented airport-style security measures for people seeking to interact with lawmakers. Abraham James Zeiger, 36, of Raleigh was charged ...

Tagged with: gun permit

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An attorney who previously led the North Carolina chapter of a group that advocates for Southern secession has been ordered not to handle clients’ money. A Wake County judge filed an order that prohibits Harold Ray ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina school district says a black employee’s workplace harassment lawsuit should be dismissed because she hasn’t been able to point to any institutional racial discrimination. Kimberly Tigner is a career development liaison for the ...

Tagged with: racism