North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a Hungarian businessman sold a company to another Hungarian company, violating an injunction, the Hungarian company’s participation in the businessman’s injunction violation was insufficient to provide the court a basis for exercising personal jurisdiction over it. Background In the ...

  Even though a deputy’s investigation had revealed sufficient information to support a detective’s application for a warrant to search defendant’s home and car, and even though the detective attached unsworn information about the car, the sworn affidavit itself did ...

Although summary judgment was granted to two companies hired to provide “quality assurance” and “quality control” services on a bridge construction project, there are disputed issues of material fact over the contract terms. Now a jury will decide whether the companies ...

Although a defendant’s sentence was boosted to 10 years from the recommended 30 to 37 months because the district court said the interstate nature of his criminal conduct made his crime more serious, there was no evidence the conduct involved ...

Although the plaintiff failed to list her potential tort claims on her bankruptcy schedule, that omission does not necessarily preclude the plaintiff from bringing those claims if the district court concludes on remand the omission was the result of a ...

  When parental rights are terminated and the parent’s counsel files a no-merit brief with the appellate court, the appellate court must independently review any potential issues counsel identifies in the no-merit brief. We vacate the Court of Appeals’ decision ...

  In order for a trial court to revoke probation after the probationary term has expired, G.S. § 15A-1344(f) requires the court to find, among other things, that good cause exists to revoke probation. Where the trial court revoked defendant’s ...

  Where defendant has served his time and had his rights restored, and where the state presented no evidence of the efficacy of satellite-based monitoring (SBM), the SBM statute is declared unconstitutional with respect to the category of recidivist sex ...

  Prosecution witness Lakenda Malachi provided the only direct evidence – eyewitness testimony – that defendant killed the victim. Malachi was facing drug charges in a neighboring county, yet the trial court significantly limited defendant’s cross-examination of Malachi as to ...

  Defendant admitted that, as of April 2, 2014, she had possession and control of items that had been stolen from the victim’s house on March 20, 2014. Under the doctrine of recent possession, defendant’s possession of the property at ...