North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Pitt County property owner has been recovered $60,000 in taxes and penalties that were levied against him under the state’s Controlled Substance Tax Act. In 1991, cocaine was found in a barn on the taxpayer’s Pitt County property. Under ...

CD-ROM has arrived, and that’s good news for North Carolina lawyers, who may soon be able to carry around an entire law library in their brief case. CD-ROM stands for ‘Compact Disk – Read Only Memory.’ The disks look identical ...

A motorist convicted of crossing the center line can still be prosecuted for vehicular death without creating double jeopardy, the state Appeals Court ruled May 4. This is so, the panel said, even though the two offenses arose from identical ...

A flight attendant whose eye was injured by debris from a jet engine blast has recovered $550,000 following a jury trial in Winston-Salem. The Superior Court case is Baird v. Delta Airlines Inc. Forsyth County 91 CVS 5085. The jury ...

Keep your eyes open in criminal cases that involve prayers for judgment continued. They could pose procedural traps for the prosecution and defense alike. Two cautionary opinions on point were handed down June 15 by the state Court of Appeals. ...

Debtors may have to clean out their accounts before they file Chapter 13 to stop the bank from using the money to pay off their prior loans – even if the loans aren’t in default. That’s the effect of a ...

A son forbidden to drive his parents’ car was not covered by an auto liability policy excluding drivers who lack a reasonable belief they are entitled to use the car, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled July 30. In so ruling, ...

The Industrial Commission knows a fish story when it hears one. In an Aug. 23 opinion, the commission denied benefits to a real estate broker who claimed he received a job-related injury sometime after he got out of a fishing ...

Even though a husband used mostly separate funds to repay a loan used to buy stock in a family company, the stock is nevertheless entirely a marital asset, the Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 21. The reason: the stock was ...

The Department of Transportation must reconvey land it took – but never used – back to the former owners for the initial purchase price, plus interest, the Supreme Court ruled Oct. 8. The 4-2 decision is Ferrell v. Department of ...