An employee’s internal complaint about a safety issue at his company can qualify as protected activity under North’s Carolina’s Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous unpublished opinion on Sept. 24. Justin ...
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Lawyers in the News – Sept. 28 
Chaz M. Beasley has joined Moore & Van Allen as counsel in the firm’s financial services group in its Charlotte office. Beasley, a state legislator from Mecklenburg County who is not seeking re-election, focuses his practice on representing financial institutions ...
Read More »Long lines of mourners pay respects to Ginsburg at court
By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With crowds of admirers swelling outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice ...
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Read More »GOP elections board members resign over absentee settlement
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The two Republican members of North Carolina’s state elections board have resigned after signing off on a settlement to help voters fix absentee ballot problems that has been criticized by state GOP leaders. Ken Raymond and ...
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Read More »Supreme Court vacancy looms large in 2nd NC Senate debate
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Questions about the potential successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg hung heavy over Tuesday night’s second debate in a U.S. Senate race in North Carolina whose outcome could decide the chamber’s ...
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Read More »N.C. federal appellate judge Rushing on Trump’s short list 
RALEIGH (AP) — Called both a legal “rock star” by Republican senators and an “ideological extremist” by critics, Allison Jones Rushing had already landed what most lawyers would consider a career-defining position before turning 40. But the Trump administration may ...
Read More »N.C., S.C. take different approaches in court operations
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation in March, the leaders of judiciaries in every jurisdiction in the country had to take quick and drastic steps to figure out how to keep the wheels of justice turning under unprecedented ...
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Read More »Senate GOP lines up with Trump to quickly fill court seat
By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have swiftly fallen in line behind President Donald Trump’s push to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat as one of the ...
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Read More »How employers can support working parents during COVID-19 
In the absence of daycares and in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, working parents have scrambled together a childcare strategy, which likely includes plenty of screen time, stress and guilt. Working from home has been a difficult adjustment for all; ...
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Read More »Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications ...
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