North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Guns and marijuana recovered from a vehicle did not need to be suppressed because the officer had probable cause to stop the driver after observing his erratic driving and did not unreasonably delay the stop. The admission of statements made ...

Where the government allowed a jury to be empaneled and began presenting testimony despite the fact that a subpoenaed witness had not appeared in court, as required, for the first two days of trial, and a mistrial was granted on ...

A couple who worked in the wife’s family’s campground business for years without pay has not shown that the business is a de facto partnership, but they may be able to show that the wife’s mother owed and breached a ...

After plaintiff was injured by the defendant-tortfeasor’s negligence, he was treated at a hospital. Rather than bill plaintiff’s health insurance, the hospital chose to seek payment through a medical lien on any recovery plaintiff obtained from the tortfeasor. Although the ...

After a thief took money from a Taco Bell cash register, trained tracking dog Carlo followed the thief’s scent first to discarded items (including gloves and bank bags) and then to defendant, whose pockets were stuffed with cash organized by ...

  Where the plaintiff-wife testified that she and the defendant-husband went to a bank, presented their drivers’ licenses and their separation agreement to a notary public, and signed the agreement after the notary had taken their licenses, the trial court ...

The state’s termination of a lease to which it was a party was not an unconstitutional impairment of contract under the U.S. Constitution. We affirm the trial court’s grant of (1) defendant Brooks’ motion to dismiss and (2) the state ...

In a prior lawsuit between the same parties, the trial court dismissed – as unripe and without prejudice – the debtors’ counterclaim that the bank had not made a commercially reasonable disposition of the debtors’ collateral. Otherwise, the trial court ...

  The respondent-agency’s decision-maker indicated that she chose a male candidate for a job because (1) he had more education than the female petitioner, (2) he scored better in the interview, and (3) adding a man to the staff would ...

After a hearing on a petition to terminate respondents’ parental rights, the trial court properly made findings under G.S. Chapter 7B, Article 11 rather than under G.S. § 7B-906.2, which pertains to permanent plans that must be established at permanency ...