North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A comprehensive clinical assessment said the 15-year-old appellant was diagnosed with “Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder”; “Other Specified Trauma-and Stressor-Related Disorder”; and “Cannabis Use Disorder, Mild.” The doctor who prepared the assessment recommended that appellant met “medical necessity for ...

After a domestic violence altercation, the respondent-mother was arrested at a Jacksonville gas station while her three children were in her vehicle; this situation gave North Carolina emergency jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. However, even ...

As of the February 2018 trial date, the only evidence of defendant’s 2018 income showed that he had earned $15,628 per month and had not received an employment bonus. Without explaining why it did so, the trial court found that ...

Although an administrative law judge determined that petitioner had failed to establish that he was fired in violation of the North Carolina Whistleblower Act, since the ALJ found that petitioner had been dismissed without just cause and ordered his reinstatement ...

Even though this case involves defendant Tutton’s breach of restrictive covenants in a settlement agreement and consent order that were entered into after Tutton had already breached restrictive covenants in his employment contract, it is still up to the court ...

G.S. § 97-39 presumes a surviving spouse and/or child is entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits, and “in all other cases questions of dependency, in whole or in part shall be determined in accordance with the facts as the facts ...

Where a police officer used a radar gun to measure defendant’s speed at 45 mph in a 35-mph zone, and where the officer observed what appeared to be tinted windows on defendant’s car, the officer had reasonable suspicion to stop ...

At three in the morning, when no other cars were on the street, a marked police car followed defendant down a street, stayed behind him as he made two left turns and followed him into an empty parking lot, and ...

Where the state’s evidence showed that defendant took jewelry, a money clip, and a firearm from the same room of the victim’s residence during the commission of a single breaking or entering on 9 November 2017, the single taking rule ...

When an undercover police detective, who had asked to buy drugs, obtained two white rocks from defendant, the detective handled the rocks with his bare hands and placed them in the console area of his car; earlier that same day, ...