A construction worker who injured his knee after jumping a fence to escape an aggressive German shepherd has won a $325,000 jury verdict in Mecklenburg County. Edgar Plascencia-Ortiz and his coworkers were putting siding on the second floor deck ...
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Jeopardy attaches when a jury is empaneled and continues following a mistrial until a terminating event occurs, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, affirming the decision to vacate a defendant’s murder conviction on double jeopardy grounds. James Harold ...
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Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverley Lake was as well known for his sharp wit as he was for his sharp legal mind. And as a staunch Republican, Lake, who died Sept. 12 at the age ...
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Documents in a civil lawsuit against a prominent Fayetteville businessman that have been unsealed after a two-year court battle reveal that he reached a $1.9 million settlement with people who claim that he sexually battered them. The disclosure of ...
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A Cumberland County woman has won a $3.2 million verdict against her ex-husband and his girlfriend after a jury found that the girlfriend had broken up their marriage and her former spouse had libeled her by creating a fake ...
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A Currituck County woman’s “household” did not include the son, daughter-in-law, or granddaughter who lived in a nearby house on her family farm, a divided North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, granting an insurer’s request to deny coverage ...
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A man whose criminal convictions were vacated because he had to wait for more than four years after being arrested before prosecutors brought the case to trial cannot sue the government for monetary damages, the North Carolina Court of ...
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When Lauren Newton, an attorney with Charles Monnett III & Associates in Charlotte, had a daughter in 2018, she took advantage of the three weeks of annual secured leave from courtroom duties that all North Carolina attorneys are entitled ...
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A law firm on wheels that offers free legal advice in low-income neighborhoods might roll out of Raleigh after the city’s council passed an ordinance that would require it to pay $50 each time it sets up. For the past ...
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The parents of a two-year-old girl who was fatally shot by another child at an unlicensed day care facility will be able to bring a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress against the operators of the day care ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
