North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Grave robbing has been a tempting crime for millennia—the victim is in no shape to defend himself, and would seem to have no further use for worldly possessions. Egyptian pyramids were specifically engineered to guard against it, but modern-day ...

Tagged with: Identity Theft

The Wake County school system has paid a former high school student and his family $450,000 to settle allegations that a special education teacher secluded him from others and restrained him in a chair, his attorney reports.  Stacey Gahagan of ...

Tagged with: school system

  A Guilford County district court judge who publicly sounded off in the local media about misconduct allegations leveled against him has now been sent off, having agreed to resign from the bench following a lengthy investigation into those multiple ...

Tagged with: Judges

  A lawsuit brought by a mom who argues that her children were denied their right to a sound education under the state constitution because of persistent sexual harassment and bullying at school should have been dismissed because the children’s ...

Tagged with: schools

The town of Apex has paid $15.3 million to settle a class action lawsuit with builders in the town who said they were wrongly charged impact fees, the builders’ attorneys report. Daniel Bryson and Hunter Bryson of Whitfield Bryson & ...

Tagged with: Fees

The Map Act may be gone, but it is certainly not forgotten. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has agreed to another big-dollar settlement with a family whose land rights were frozen under the act, this time agreeing to pay ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain Map Act

A years-long effort to prosecute a Henderson County man accused of trying to beat his wife to death may have reached its end. The North Carolina Court of Appeals instructed the trial court to dismiss all of the remaining charges, ...

Tagged with: Double Jeopardy

Coleman Cowan had just wrapped up a deposition at a doctor’s office in Durham when a bullet from a robber’s gun shattered his arm–and shifted his paradigm. He and another lawyer had been chatting in the doctor’s parking lot at ...

Tagged with: work life balance

  A Wake County family whose land was seized to make way for construction of the Southern Wake Expressway will receive $3.25 million from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, almost four times as much as the DOT initially offered, ...

Tagged with: NCDOT

  A 14-year-old who was born with cerebral palsy after he was injured in a car crash when his mother was seven months pregnant has reached a $2.5 million confidential settlement with the at-fault driver and his employer, his attorneys ...

Tagged with: Automobile Accident