North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

As campaign messages go, it was not the closing pitch that Sidebar would have expected, but it was perhaps the one that partisan judicial elections made inevitable. Justice Barbara Jackson had the misfortune to be running against the partisan tide ...

Sidebar loves to keep up with the latest news, but doesn’t like having to get dressed up for work like a grown-up, so he was delighted to learn that attorneys can now follow the goings-on at the North Carolina State ...

Although voters elect our state judges here in North Carolina, federal judges get their seats via old-fashioned appointment, and just as the state’s elections are getting underway the U.S. Senate is also moving closer to filling a vacancy on the ...

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Just as every attorney should take a little time now and then to unplug and unwind, Sidebar feels recharged and refreshed after taking a few weeks of sabbatical to commune with nature. (Sidebar even managed to show up on time ...

A massive Wilmington drug bust in which New Hanover County Sheriff’s detectives seized what appeared to be 13 pounds of fentanyl just took a bitter turn. Private lab tests recently showed that an alleged $2 million worth of fentanyl that ...

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Sidebar keeps at home an extensive collection of baseball jerseys, cards, and autographed baseballs. His significant other has at times argued that it is, in fact an excessive amount of baseball memorabilia for a fully grown man to own and ...

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An inmate at the New Hanover County Detention Facility claims that he is being forced to drink contaminated water while awaiting trial. According to news reports, 27-year-old Damian Gore has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the water being provided ...

Tagged with: Clean Water Act

It may not be “The Staircase,” but another controversial North Carolina murder conviction is back in the news, with defense attorneys contending that police failed to investigate potential alternative suspects in an infamous 2008 killing. Mark Carver was convicted of ...

North Carolina-based Creative Recycling Systems recently played a role in a lawsuit brought over antiquated computer monitors and cathode ray tube television sets. According to an Aiken Standard article, the lawsuit was brought by Carolina Pines LLC, which owned a ...

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A Raleigh-area auto mechanic was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison followed by a year of supervised release for pretending to be a U.S. Army general and piloting a helicopter, all to impress a married female employee, according to ...

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