North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Entering a murder victim’s skeletal remains into evidence for a jury to see was more probative than prejudicial, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression. Rodney Enoch was convicted of murdering his ...

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The most important opinions from the third quarter of 2018

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  By the time that North Carolina Lawyers Weekly went to press Sept. 20, Hurricane Florence had dropped up to three feet of rain in parts of the state, leading to flooding with the potential for more on the way. ...

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A mobile home park may have violated the Fair Housing Act by requiring residents to provide proof of their legal residency in the United States, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Four Latino families allege that the ...

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A law firm that advised its client to take notes about his conversations with co-workers at Duke University Health System and share those notes with his legal team did not violate ethical rules against communicating directly with an opposing party, ...

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Earlier this year, Judge Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, retired after he was accused of making inappropriate comments toward law clerks under his tutelage. And in June the U.S. Senate held hearings to determine how wide-reaching the problem of sexual harassment is in the federal judiciary.

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Citing judicial immunity, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuit against a Maryland circuit court judge who ordered a deputy sheriff to use a Taser-like electrical shock to quiet a ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin issued an order Thursday evening declaring that catastrophic conditions resulting from Hurricane Florence currently exist in those counties subject to mandatory evacuation orders: Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Jones, New Hanover, ...

Recent changes in the military retirement system might call for legal professionals to familiarize themselves with the new standard operating procedures. One of those changes, perhaps the most significant to family law attorneys—especially those who practice in “military towns”—is the ...

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  Category 4 Hurricane Florence is headed for the Carolinas and has the potential to gravely impact a wide swath of the eastern seaboard from Virginia to South Carolina. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper evacuated the state’s barrier islands Sept. ...

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