North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In order to prove fraud, a plaintiff need not show that the defendant’s misrepresentation was made on a specific date. Where plaintiff presented evidence that (1) defendant Rives made a definite and specific promise not to spend more than $25,000 ...

In the presence of the jury venire, the trial judge inadvertently mentioned that defendant’s counsel was from the public defender’s office. The jury could not reasonably infer the trial court’s introduction of the parties to be an opinion on a ...

In his affidavit in support of an application for a warrant to search defendant’s residence, a police detective relied on screenshots of defendant’s Facebook posts, but the posts do not include dates and times, nor did the affidavit say when ...

Defendant’s appendix to her opening brief and the documentary exhibits requested by plaintiff contained unredacted confidential information, such as the parties’ unredacted social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and employer identification numbers, as well as the unredacted ...

Where the parties’ unincorporated separation agreement delineated five specific events that would terminate the defendant-father’s child support obligation, a change in custody was not included on this list. Defendant was not entitled to relief from his support obligation based solely ...

Where respondent’s transcript of admission provided – and the juvenile court informed him – that the most severe disposition that he would receive was a Level 2, but where the juvenile court imposed a Level 3 disposition without sufficient notice ...

Where media entities sought to unseal the existing district court docket and filings as well as any future proceedings, and to vacate the nondisclosure order blocking their state public records requests, the appeal was dismissed because the district court effectively ...

Where defendants challenged their sentence for conspiracy to distribute and possess ice-level purity methamphetamine, it was not clearly erroneous for the district court to rely on testing results and circumstantial and direct evidence to conclude the conspiracy was centered on ...

In its permanency planning order, the trial court concluded that the respondent-father had acted inconsistently with his constitutional rights as a parent. Such a conclusion must be based on findings of fact which are in turn based on clear and ...

During the parties’ marriage, student loans for the parties’ adult daughter were taken out in the plaintiff-husband’s name alone. Nevertheless, there was a joint benefit, in that the daughter’s tuition, books and living expenses were covered by the loans rather ...