North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a former student sued a Virginia State University administrator for alleged due process violations in connection with a student discipline proceeding, the administrator was entitled to qualified immunity because there was no clearly established right to continued enrollment in ...

Where decisions from the Supreme Court and this court hold that inmates are entitled to some level of procedural protection, but none of those cases definitively require prior notice of administrative segregation hearings, a prison official sued for not providing ...

Where a 911 caller requested medical care for the decedent because of his consumption of alcohol and prescription drugs, and the officers knew the man was substantially inhibited in his ability to talk, walk or sit and they witnessed his ...

Where a Stafford County deputy initially offered to assist the plaintiff with his disabled vehicle, but then demanded the plaintiff produce identification, that demand converted the voluntary encounter into an investigatory stop for which the officer lacked reasonable suspicion of ...

  In this alienation of affection action, plaintiff (Mary’s ex-husband) presented evidence that, during plaintiff’s marriage to Mary, the Florida-resident defendant (Mary’s new husband) communicated with a telephone number registered in North Carolina. However, the evidence does not support a ...

  In this lawsuit claiming that defendants violated plaintiff’s civil rights when they obtained a default judgment against him in small claims court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, deposition testimony by defendant Jureidini described repeated instances where USVI small claims ...

A jury will decide if a prison official’s decision to pepper spray an inmate after he head-butted an officer and was lying on his back in handcuffs was “clearly necessary” to respond to a threat to officer safety or to ...

Where a man voluntarily left a restaurant with a police officer to be patted down outside, the officer did not brandish a weapon, use restraint, accuse him of wrongdoing or make a show of authority, and thus the man failed ...

Where the inmate plausibly suggested he was placed in administrative segregation for impermissible reasons the day after he accused a correction officer of sexual assault and argued his segregation was arbitrary, it was improper to grant summary judgment to the ...

Where a police officer who was no longer responding to an emergency but continued to drive on a dark, curved road at nearly twice the speed limit without emergency lights or siren when he struck another vehicle, causing severe orthopedic ...