North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services, prohibiting physicians and other providers in Title X programs from referring patients for an abortion and imposing other requirements on entities receiving Title X funds, was enjoined. HHS inadequately ...

Where defendants’ compromise statements were erroneously admitted to prove the validity of the plaintiff’s claim for a commission on the sale of industrial property, and the error was not harmless, the defendants were entitled to a new trial. Background A ...

Because there were good reasons why defense counsel for a man on trial for beating, shooting and robbing a prostitute decided to not test certain items for DNA, including the risk of undermining the trial strategy, the habeas court’s rejection ...

The Gloucester County School Board’s policy requiring students to use bathrooms matching their “biological gender,” and its refusal to amend a student’s records to reflect his gender identity after his transition, were not substantially related to important governmental interests and ...

Although sections of the anti-riot act failed to bear the requisite relation between speech and lawlessness, the convictions of two defendants for violent participation in three white supremacist rallies were affirmed because their conduct fell under the statute’s surviving provisions. ...

Where the defendant in a wrongful death action brought by a woman whose husband’s exposure to asbestos caused his death from mesothelioma, argued the jury was improperly instructed on causation and the trial court erred by refusing to reduce the ...

Where evidence disclosed since a conviction for rape and burglary 44 years ago suggests the police suppressed material evidence in violation of the defendant’s rights under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the district court was directed to consider whether ...

    Nine years after plaintiff K2 Asia Ventures filed the complaint in this action and three years after defendant asserted that plaintiff was not the real party in interest, plaintiff sought to substitute its actual corporate name, K2 Asia ...

  Upon the plaintiff-father’s Rule 60(b) motion to set aside a child support order, the trial court concluded, as the motion asserted, that the child support provisions were unsupported by findings of fact, and the trial court set the child ...

  Although the respondent-mother initially said, “I don’t know” when the trial court asked if she wanted the help of an attorney, respondent ultimately clarified, after a series of follow-up questions, that she wished to proceed with the permanency planning ...