North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where Maryland Rules require the recording of proceedings and allow the public to obtain copies of those proceedings, a ban on broadcasting those recordings was subject to strict scrutiny. Because the district court applied only intermediate scrutiny in upholding the ...

Where the convicted sex-offender failed to show a regulation prohibiting sex offenders from having in-person visits with minors unless they received an exception lacked “a rational relation to legitimate penological interests,” his First Amendment right to association claim was dismissed. ...

Where a professional counselor seeking to provide talk therapy to reduce his minor clients’ same-sex attractions alleged a Maryland law proscribing this practice violated the First Amendment, he improperly sued the governor and attorney general. Neither defendant was sufficiently connected ...

Where the defendant falsely told police officers and court officials that the charges brought against him would be dismissed because he was an Assistant United States attorney, or AUSA, and repeated that he was an AUSA when he was trying ...

Where the original complaint filed by a landowner alleging her house was damaged when a railroad diverted water asserted only state-law claims for negligence, nuisance and trespass, but her amended complaint included new claims for adverse possession and prescriptive easement ...

Two drivers, Carson and Hall, each at a stop sign on a side street, were facing each other across Friendly Avenue in Greensboro. Defendant Carson was intoxicated and gave conflicting turn signals (first left and then right) but did not ...

Even though the trial court found that an unequal distribution was equitable and explained why its 70/30 unequal distribution was equitable, the trial court’s order does not contain the necessary finding that a 50/50 equal division was not equitable or ...

Where plaintiff did not allege, one way or another, whether the defendant-doctor was following requisite procedures when he released the decedent’s son—who went on to kill his own mother a week later—and where statutory immunity for physicians at state hospitals ...

The trial court’s Order Terminating Juvenile Court Jurisdiction did not “make findings and conclusions that support entry of a custody order in an action under Chapter 50” and made no determination whether “at least six months have passed since the ...

In its order adjudicating the juvenile delinquent for committing the offense of assault on a person under twelve, the trial court found that the juvenile “is currently in DSS custody.” However, since the trial court also found that “the juvenile ...