North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Undocumented immigrants who were properly arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the state where they lived with their families were not deprived of their constitutional rights when they were transferred to another state without notice or a ...

A county board of elections that was tasked with enforcing a law enacted by the state was required to pay the attorneys’ fees of the plaintiffs who prevailed in an action to enjoin the enforcement of the law on the ...

Where plaintiffs challenging Mississippi’s death penalty practices subpoenaed the Virginia Department of Corrections in the hopes of gathering information that would help them prove deficiencies in Mississippi’s practices, the subpoena was quashed because the department had already produced relevant information ...

A jury will decide if a financial advisor was negligent in advising certain clients about inherited annuities, or if the clients were themselves negligent, which would bar recovery. The district court had concluded the clients were negligent as a matter ...

A former lawyer who was prosecuted for his role as “consigliere” in a multi-state marijuana trafficking organization had his convictions for money laundering and obstruction of justice upheld. The convictions were based in large part on inculpatory recorded conversations he ...

 Where the respondent-father waited until his closing argument at the adjudicatory stage of the hearing to terminate his parental rights before making the argument that the trial court should have appointed him a guardian ad litem earlier than it did, ...

Because defendant pled guilty, his right of appeal was limited to the sentencing issues set forth in G.S. § 15A-1444(a1) and (a2). Defendant stipulated to his prior conviction and prior record level; furthermore, defendant was correctly sentenced from the presumptive ...

  The alleged conduct that forms the basis for plaintiff’s claims of civil obstruction of justice and civil conspiracy – the destruction of files and the making of false statements – occurred during this lawsuit. Accordingly, the court can address ...

  Plaintiff contracted with defendants to produce the component parts of plaintiff’s wine cork extractor, but plaintiff rejected the second batch of parts because of quality concerns. Where defendants concede that they have kept possession of and refused to return ...

Business purchase agreement not enforceable against purchasers where individual signed in capacity as agent and sellers gave purchasers a counteroffer and rejection, with no further negotiations or signed agreement following. We grant defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment. The parties ...