North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although a defendant satisfied the requirements to receive temporary protected status, or TPS, and would have been granted TPS had the Immigration and Naturalization Service reviewed all documents in its possession, the denial of TPS was not fundamentally unfair because ...

Where a juror had to be excused after expressing fear that she would be retaliated against if she found the defendants guilty, the other jurors, who confirmed their ability to be fair and impartial, were not tainted, and the defendants ...

A 30-day sentence imposed after a defendant validly waived his right to counsel on a misdemeanor charge was properly included in the calculation of defendant’s criminal history score under the Sentencing Guidelines. Background On Aug. 8, 2017, a federal grand ...

Senior government officials, including the former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, cannot be held liable for claims they unlawfully used electronic surveillance to spy on a CBS television reporter because such conduct did not violate a clearly established right. Background ...

A district court did not err in admitting a police officer’s photographs of a drug transaction, or a call between defendant and an informant, because the evidence was properly authenticated and sufficiently reliable. Although the jury refused to convict of ...

Where an immigration judge determined that an imprisoned father did not have physical custody of his child for purposes of the Child Citizenship Act, that decision should have been reviewed de novo by the Board of Immigration Appeals. Background Howard ...

We affirm our Court of Appeals’ holding (Where the evidence showed that the defendant-father had limited, irregular income, was unable to work, and had assets which – even if he sold his car – would have allowed him to pay ...

  We affirm the Business Court’s award of attorneys’ fees against plaintiffs’ counsel individually as a sanction for discovery violations (Although plaintiff Preiss showed up an hour and a half late – unaccompanied by counsel – for her deposition, since ...

Given our Court of Appeals’ holding (Even though the trial court did not follow G.S. § 15A-1225.1 when it granted the state’s mid-trial motion to allow a child witness to testify remotely, defendant has shown no prejudice. By the time ...

G.S. § 15-144 sets out the wording to be used in short-form indictments for murder and for manslaughter. Although the statute’s wording for murder is “kill and murder” while the wording for manslaughter is “kill and slay,” the critical difference ...