North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The state did not present evidence that defendant lived in the home where a methamphetamine precursor (pseudoephedrine) was found, nor did the state show that defendant was in proximity to the pseudoephedrine. Defendant’s only suspicious behavior was failing to answer ...

Even though the petition alleging that respondents’ children were neglected and dependent contained allegations regarding the respondent-mother’s “severe untreated mental health concerns,” and even though the trial court learned early on that the mother had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia ...

Even though a maternal grandmother is not one of the persons whom G.S. § 7B-401.1(h) allows to intervene in a neglect and dependency case, since the grandmother in this case is also the child’s caretaker, the trial court may order ...

Where (1) the respondent-father knew he was likely the father of the respondent-mother’s baby when the mother left Ohio for North Carolina, yet he had no involvement in the first six years of his daughter A.A.J.’s life; (2) he initially ...

As part of an economic development deal, the Rural Economic Development Center provided funding for a sewer installation for a plant, and defendant promised to create 100 jobs in Halifax County. It is unclear how to quantify damages for defendant’s ...

Someone gave plaintiff’s physician, Dr. Christopher Barnes, a job-match report prepared by physical therapist Frank Murray, who owns his own company, which contracts with corporations to provide occupational medicine services such as job matches. Based on Murray’s testimony that – ...

Even though defendant Wilson owned a 56.3 percent interest in the defendant-limited liability company, since the LLC’s operating agreement defined a “majority” as 67 percent or greater of the LLC’s issued voting shares, the trial court should not have instructed ...

For six months, plaintiff worked part-time for $8.00 per hour; she worked full-time at $8.00 per hour for the next two months; and then, on the day she was injured on the job, her hourly wage increased from $8.00 to ...

Where a defendant who was being held at a county jail admitted to distributing methamphetamine during questioning by his parole officer, it did not violate the Fifth Amendment to use that admission to prove that the defendant violated his supervised ...

A parole board is not required to consider age-related mitigating characteristics of a defendant who was sentenced in 1988 when he was 17, to life with the possibility of parole. While the Supreme Court has addressed the sentencing of minors ...