North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

If you’re on social media (or simply don’t live under a rock) then you’re likely savvy to the health trends taking over pop culture. Kale is in and carbs are out. Be sure to hit 10,000 steps per day. Eat ...

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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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  A late hour in a dark office. A sleep-deprived lawyer squints at a glowing flatscreen, her keyboard pattering: tappity tap tap tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. Tap tappity tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. A quick scroll, hit Send, a distant lightning flash and ...

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  Running a small law firm isn’t easy. Practicing law is a full-time job in and of itself, and as a result most small firm lawyers don’t have the luxury of letting others run the back-end of their law firm. ...

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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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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top legal officer says several e-cigarette companies aren’t selling their products in the state while his litigation against them is pending. Attorney General Josh Stein announced in August that he was suing eight more ...

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