North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Police officers allowed the assailant, whom they knew, to delay surrendering on an arrest warrant, after which the assailant stabbed his pregnant wife outside the courthouse where she had just obtained a protective order against him. The officers’ conduct, however, ...

The majority found the term “habitual drunkard,” as used in the Virginia statute that makes it a criminal offense for persons deemed habitual drunks to buy or consume alcohol, was unconstitutionally vague and could violate the Eighth Amendment. Background Homeless ...

A death row inmate could not attempt to re-adjudicate the denial of his previous petition for habeas relief, which had claimed that his sentence violated the Eighth Amendment because he was intellectually disabled, by moving to reopen those proceedings based ...

An out-of-state citizen could bring a constitutional challenge against a statute that limited copies of the state’s registered voter list to state residents because the list was closely connected to political speech and the statute imposes both content- and speaker-based ...

The fraud claims of Chinese investors who each invested approximately $500,000 in a start-up car company without reading the underlying investment documents were dismissed because the investors could not have justifiably relied on stray misstatements made by the company’s founders ...

At a hearing on defendant’s motion for relief from the trial court’s order that the jury would be instructed on spoliation of evidence, defendant was denied its right to due process when the trial court imposed the additional discovery sanction ...

In a domestic violence case, a trial court does not err by admitting evidence in support of unpleaded domestic violence allegations, so long as the allegations in the complaint provide sufficient notice of the nature and basis of any unpleaded ...

Even though the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court in South Dakota originally exercised jurisdiction over two Cheyenne children and placed them in the custody of their appellant-aunt, since (1) the aunt sought and obtained guardians for the children from the ...

Before his election to the board of county commissioners, Commissioner Permenter vocally opposed the solar farm proposed by petitioners. Once Permenter was elected, when this matter came before the board, he presented biased, one-sided and incomplete evidence opposing petitioners’ application ...

After testimony from the plaintiff’s own experts confirmed the doctor’s decision to transfer the infant to a higher level of care within the hospital was not a violation of the standard of care, the court reversed a multi-million dollar judgment ...