North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  This is the first article in a series revisiting some of Lawyers Weekly’s best stories over the years, seeing how issues have evolved since we last covered them, and how well our stories anticipated future developments. In August 2012, ...

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When they go to the polls this fall, North Carolina’s voters will be asked to sign off on a new process for filling vacancies in the state’s judiciary—but legislation that would be needed to implement the changes has yet to ...

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  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial judge’s order imposing nearly $270,000 in Rule 11 sanctions on a multi-state corporate defense firm, the lawyer in charge of the firm’s Winston-Salem office, and their client.. The court’s ...

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  Being a first descendant of an enrolled member of a Native American tribe isn’t enough to prove criminal jurisdiction in federal court under the Indian Major Crimes Act, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. This was the ...

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The new owner of Avvo.com, one of the top players in the online legal marketplace, has put the kibosh on the company’s fixed-rate legal services—just as a North Carolina State Bar committee was working on an ethics opinion concerning whether ...

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Whether correctional officer Jeffrey Hunt told another prison employee “I quit” is irrelevant, according to a novel June 19 state Court of Appeals decision that makes clear who can and cannot accept the resignation of a public employee. Hunt allegedly ...

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Candidate filing for this fall’s North Carolina judicial elections came to an unusually dramatic conclusion June 29, with legislators scrambling boundary lines literally on the eve of the filing deadline, a surprise Republican candidate filing at the last moment for ...

The U.S. government will have to refund the restitution money it collected from a defendant who died while his conviction was on appeal, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in an unpublished decision. The court found that ...

  The most important opinions for the second quarter of 2018 Administrative State disability findings may deserve substantial weight An administrative law judge erred in according little weight to a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services determination that ...

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North Carolina’s lawmakers capped off their final pre-election legislative session with a frenetic flurry of activity that wreaked havoc on candidate filing for this year’s judicial elections and could change the way that vacancies are filled in the state’s judiciary. ...

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