North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A parent’s failure to visit with their child, their history of domestic violence towards the child’s other biological parent, and their failure to comply with substance abuse treatment or other court-ordered services provided grounds for the termination of parental rights. ...

Officers who stopped a vehicle for expired tag could perform protective frisk on an occupant that the officers knew had a history of firearms offenses and was making furtive movements during the traffic stop. Defendant, a 17-year-old, was with a ...

A respondent subject to involuntary mental health commitment does not have their due process rights to an impartial tribunal violated where the trial court, in the absence of counsel for the state, calls a state witness and asks open-ended questions. ...

The trial court could not retroactively extend time for issuance of an alias and pluries summons once an action had been discontinued for failure to perfect service. On July 31, 2020, plaintiff filed a legal malpractice complaint against defendants, arising ...

Because a lawsuit challenging law that converted district court judicial elections from countywide into district-based elections was mooted when the legislature repealed the law, and the claims were not capable of repetition yet evading review, we affirm the dismissal of ...

Summary judgment had to be affirmed where the trial court did not specify which of the prevailing parties’ theories it was relying on in granting summary judgment, and the party appealing summary judgment did not address in its appellate brief ...

The trial court erred in awarding legal fees and costs to petitioners challenging the issuance of a special use permit where there had been no judicial determination that the permit could not be issued under the facts of the case ...

Although site development agreement allowed property owners’ association to collect assessments from the owners of an adjoining community in exchange for access to the larger community’s facilities, the agreement also obligated the larger community to use some portion of the ...

Plaintiff, an owner-operator truck driver, paid for workers’ compensation insurance through a program operated by America Emerald Transportation Services, Inc. (AETS), and AETS’s insurer, Guarantee Insurance Co. (GIC), paid plaintiff’s compensable claim until GIC was liquidated. However, since AETS was ...

Even if defendant did not waive his objection when he failed to object to witness testimony about a no-longer-available surveillance video, his argument that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony still fails. The rule of completeness, N.C. R. ...