North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After a two-year, $10 million renovation, the York County Courthouse reopened earlier this year to a mostly warm reception. It featured refurbished wood floors, cathedral-style ceilings, and elevators. What it did not feature is the Confederate flag and portraits of ...

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The solar eclipse that passed from coast to coast on Aug.21 was a timely reminder that whatever our differences may be, we all live under the same sun. Many attorneys say they stepped out of the office for a little ...

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Few people outside Alamance County knew the name Tim Sutton before last week. But Sutton, a county commissioner, has gained national notoriety for asserting during a public meeting that slaves were “workers.” The Times-News in Burlington first reported Sutton’s provocative ...

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Henry McCollum and Leon Brown spent more than 30 years on death row for a crime they didn’t commit. But allegations included in a court filing by the brothers’ guardian ad litem suggest that the pursuit of justice has been ...

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There’s falling behind on your child support payments, and there’s falling behind more than $300,000 on your child support payments. Somehow, Dr. David Gerlach managed to do the latter. According to a court ruling in the case involving Gerlach and ...

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To hear the folks at the Charlotte School of Law tell it, life-sustaining federal funds will soon flow back to the school that has seen more than its share of thirst and famine over the last several months. In a ...

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Kids will be kids. But when they do something truly boneheaded, like, say, sneak out of the house in the middle of the night and vandalize four rental homes to the tune of nearly $60,000 in damage, somebody should have ...

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When Fred New contracted with his soon-to-be-ex-wife in 2002 to help cover the “ordinary and necessary” future college expenses for the pair’s two young children, he might not have known what he was volunteering for. Fast forward more than a ...

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U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn of Charlotte is no flake when it comes to biscuits. But Cogburn, who recently confessed to being something of a fast food connoisseur given all the time he spends commuting to and from court, might ...

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A story involving an airline passenger who was said to have released such a fetid stinker while aboard a plane that the jet had to be evacuated at Raleigh-Durham International Airport last week has morphed into a viral unsolved mystery. ...

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