North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a child placement agency did not exercise sufficient control over foster parents to be held vicariously liable for their alleged negligence, the mother of the child placed in home could not sue the agency for wrongful death. Background The ...

Although the government persuaded the district court to impose a sentence above the guidelines range, the plea agreement allowed only the defendant, not the government, to ask for a sentence outside the recommended range. Background Pursuant to a plea agreement, ...

Requiring a defendant to notify employers and family members of his status as a sex offender and prohibiting him from working with or otherwise contacting minors were appropriate, but conditions barring him from accessing material depicting sexually explicit conduct and ...

Where a subcontractor’s faulty excavation work on a building construction project caused a delay in the project and required the subcontractor to perform significant remediation work, the resulting damages incurred by the site owner and general contractor were not covered ...

Where a class action lawsuit resulted in the dismissal of 10 out of 64 plaintiffs and settled for a total damages award of only 3% the initial amount sought, an award of attorneys’ fees that was almost double the amount ...

Where a defendant referenced his involvement with a drug trafficker alleged to be his coconspirator and made multiple allusions to firearms in his rap lyrics and police recovered an illegal firearm and several items associated with drug trafficking from a ...

Where the police were immediately responding to the scene of where gunshots were heard, it was not unlawful for them to temporarily stop men walking away from the scene. The case was remanded to determine whether the search, which revealed ...

Where Sprint argued that Wireless Buybacks, by purchasing phones from Sprint’s customers for resale, tortiously interfered with contracts between Sprint and its customers, the contracts were found to be ambiguous on whether the practice was forbidden. Background Besides providing cellular ...

Where there were lapses in the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase his semiautomatic weapon, lawsuits seeking to hold the United States responsible will proceed. Background In the weeks following the tragic shooting ...

Where the evidence showed one official within the prison’s health department was aware of the plaintiff’s Hepatitis C status, lack of treatment and resulting risk of harm, and another official postponed treatment for inmates with Hepatitis C knowing it would ...