North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a public authority’s obligation to repay bonds was conditioned of its receipt of rent from the city, and the city’s payment of that rent was conditioned on the appropriation of funds that were not, ultimately, appropriated, neither the city ...

Where a federal government employee’s depression resulted in repeated absences and tardiness from work, her employer’s refusal to offer her a permanent position did not constitute unlawful discrimination or retaliation. Background In March 2011, the Office of the Director of ...

A defendant who sent gift cards to an undercover agent he believed was a member of ISIS was guilty of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization where his collection of Nazi paraphernalia suggested a predisposition to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Practice

Clear, cogent and convincing evidence supported the trial court’s findings that (1) the respondent-father was ordered to pay $414.46 per month in child support to the petitioner-mother pursuant to the trial court’s June 21, 2016, order; (2) respondent had the ...

  Since the Town of Lake Lure’s zoning ordinance permits “restaurants, golf courses, and other uses designed in response to the unique natural setting of the area,” the ordinance presumes that these other uses might be at locations away from ...

In this condemnation action by the Department of Transportation, the defendant-unit owners association (UOA) of a condominium development voluntarily withdrew its appeal of the trial court’s September 2017 order, which held that the one-year statute of limitations in G.S. § ...

  In this case involving child support arrears, the trial judge received a letter from the defendant-father stating his intent to call the judge as a witness in an unrelated federal lawsuit he had filed. This did not rise to ...

Even if plaintiff had preserved for appeal her argument that defendants were estopped from claiming insufficient service of process (which she did not), her argument would still fail. First, defendants did not concede that plaintiff’s attempted service was valid, as ...

Even though an anonymous tip – that a man matching defendant’s description had a gun – was itself insufficient to indicate any illegal activity, responding officers nevertheless had a reasonable, articulable suspicion that defendant may have been engaged in unlawful ...

Once a deputy sheriff observed that defendant was not wearing his seatbelt while riding as a passenger in a moving vehicle, the deputy’s reasonable suspicion of defendant’s traffic violation permitted him to initiate a traffic stop. Since defendant lacked any ...