North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a real estate contract was expected to close in 2008 but did not close until 2017, a suit brought by an entity entitled to receive certain expenses at closing was timely as it was filed within three years of ...

Where the policy covers “damages resulting from a claim arising out of a medical incident,” a false claims act suit alleging billing for services that were not rendered was within the scope of coverage because the “failure to render” services ...

  The state trial court had jurisdiction to determine whether it had the authority to act on an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Nevertheless, the application itself revealed that the petitioners were being held on the basis of ...

  While there was evidence of ill will between the respondent-mother and petitioners—respondent’s relatives who had custody of the minor child, Anne—and while a custody order did not give respondent a right to visitation, respondent’s failure to even attempt any ...

  Although we conclude that G.S. § 6-19.1(a) would allow an award of attorney’s fees to a licensee who is brought before a licensing board for a disciplinary action, since the board’s action in this case was substantially justified, the ...

  North Carolina’s courts can terminate the parental rights of a parent who lacks minimum contacts with the state, pursuant to the status exception to the minimum contacts requirement for personal jurisdiction in termination of parental rights proceedings. We affirm ...

  Where both parties referred to the challenged jurors as African-American, this amounted to a stipulation as to the jurors’ race. Where defendant showed that the prosecutor had accepted all proffered white jurors and only 60 percent of African-American jurors, ...

  In order to avoid the death penalty, defendant pled guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery; however, when the state dismissed charges against the actual shooter, defendant sought to withdraw his guilty plea. Where (1) ...

  Where (1) the respondent father was not incarcerated until almost 12 months after he entered into his case plan and more than 12 months since he last visited his daughter, “Julie”; (2) respondent has an extensive criminal history, with ...

  When a custody action is between two parents, G.S. § 50-13.5(i) allows the trial court to deny visitation either if the parent being denied visitation is an unfit person to visit the child or if such visitation would not ...