North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In an issue of first impression, the court joined the Sixth Circuit in holding a private arbitral panel is a “tribunal” under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), which allows a district court to order testimony or documents for use in the ...

A convicted sex offender who was indicted for failing to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA, had his indictment reinstated because his non-delegation argument has been rejected by the Supreme Court and his ex post ...

Where a juror reported possible intimidation, including being photographed by family members or friends of the defendants, it was reversible error for the district court to not question the jurors directly and to only focus on whether there were photographs ...

Although two stores suffered property damage while law enforcement was executing search warrants, the damage did not rise to the level of a Fourth Amendment violation because it was not “major” and was plausibly connected to the execution of the ...

  Where defendant was convicted of several crimes that suggest he suffers from substance abuse issues, a special probation condition, which requires him to submit to evaluation through a drug treatment program and to comply with any treatment recommendations stemming ...

  Defendant’s guilty plea does not bar him from post-conviction testing of DNA and fingerprint evidence found at the scene of the crime. However, since two men committed the armed robbery in which the victim was killed, a determination that ...

A defendant sentenced for a conspiracy involving both crack and powder cocaine was nevertheless eligible for a sentence reduction consideration under the First Step Act because nothing in the statute says it does not apply if a covered offense is ...

Where a defendant pleads guilty to aiding-and-abetting the distribution of a controlled substance, the sentencing court may consider drugs possessed or consumed for “personal use.” In a case of first impression, the court held there is no personal use exception ...

  Even though it appears that plaintiffs’ N.C. R. Civ. P. 9(j) expert was an emergency room physician, while the defendant-doctors were an internist and hospitalist who did not provide plaintiffs’ decedent any care in the capacity of emergency room ...

    In this high-income child support case, the trial court made adequate findings as to the parties’ estates when it noted that a large bonus had been divided equally between the parties and that the parties’ estates were approximately ...