North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the insurance company filed an interpleader action to limit its liability in connection with suits brought against a convenience store arising out of the sale of alcohol to minors, the district court erred in dismissing the action. Because the ...

Where the district court is alleged to have erred by failing to instruct the jury “to give such weight to the confession as the jury feels it deserves under all the circumstances” when it admitted a confession into evidence, the ...

Where there was no existing “job sharing” position available for the pharmaceutical sales representative in the district, the company had no duty to create one in order to reasonably accommodate her disability. Although the company had previously permitted her to ...

Where the North Carolina Attorney General is already representing the state’s interests in defending its voter-ID law and there was no evidence he lacked the “incentive” to robustly litigate on behalf of the law, the district court did not err ...

Respondent-father Miles argues that (1) the only condition relating to him that led to “Ella’s” removal from home was that his paternity was not established at the time of removal and (2) a DNA test establishing his paternity constituted reasonable ...

Where the trial court advised the respondent-father that, if he failed to attend hearings or to communicate with his attorney, his attorney might be permitted to withdraw and he would have to proceed without representation; and where the father nevertheless ...

The respondent-father argues that, despite the fact that he was employed, he lacked the ability to pay for “Jane’s” cost of care because he was unable to support himself on the income he was receiving. Nevertheless, where respondent had income ...

The respondent-father claims his appointed counsel was ineffective because counsel failed to inform him that he needed to file an affidavit of paternity. Respondent cannot succeed on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel because ignorance of parental duties is ...

Even though “Elyse” was a teenager, and even though G.S. § 48-3-601(1) requires a teenager’s consent to adoption, G.S. § 7B-1110(a) does not require a trial court to consider a child’s consent to adoption in deciding whether to terminate parental ...

Despite some evidence of the respondent-mother’s limited intellectual functioning, other evidence showed that she understood her situation and her children’s needs. The trial court was not required, on its own motion, to consider whether respondent needed the assistance of a ...