North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Plaintiffs with disabilities cannot sue credit unions that they are not members of, and cannot become members of, for failing to make their websites accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

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The legal community’s efforts to help ensure that attorneys stay well, both mentally and physically, has become a movement during the past few years. While there has long been help for attorneys suffering from or at risk for substance abuse, ...

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  North Carolina’s most prominent attorneys packed the gallery of the state’s Supreme Court in Raleigh to honor the state’s most powerful judicial body on Jan. 7 as it convened a special session to commemorate its 200th year. In 1818, ...

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  It’s the responsibility of the state, and not local counties, to preserve the state’s constitutional right to a public education, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in the latest in a series of lawsuits concerning how the ...

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  Direct evidence of government payment or receipt of fraudulent services must be alleged for a False Claims Act lawsuit to survive a motion to dismiss, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, dismissing a former maintenance technician’s ...

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  A trial court judge properly set aside a jury verdict that awarded a medical malpractice plaintiff a single dollar in damages, but erred in entering an amended judgment awarding the plaintiff more than $500,000, a divided North Carolina Supreme ...

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A superior court judge went too far when he issued an order completely sealing the file of a sexual assault lawsuit against a prominent Fayetteville car dealership owner, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. “We have been unable ...

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Domestic violence victims petitioning for a protective order will need to include any alleged acts of domestic violence in writing in their complaints, or else lose the right to introduce them as evidence, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

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A North Carolina newspaper has lost an appeal against a $6 million libel verdict awarded to a former firearms analyst at the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation after a Court of Appeals ruling finding that the evidence in the case ...

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Interest on the award from a judgment must be calculated from the time the district court originally entered judgment when that judgment is later vacated and then reinstated by the appellate court, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...