North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  While North Carolina court operations have resumed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, courthouses across the state continue to battle the threat and are having to cancel court sessions for days and even a week at a time.  ...

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  The neighbors of a Bladen County hog farm have reportedly reached a deal with the company that owns the farm after the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict holding the owners liable for compensatory and punitive ...

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  A medical equipment maker that accuses its former distributor of selling its products under the name of the distributor’s own in-house label can move forward with a claim for “reverse passing-off,” a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled—the ...

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  In a case with implications for the enforceability of arbitration agreements, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration after a debt buyer failed to demonstrate that it had also obtained ...

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  A woman whose hands and legs were amputated after she was incorrectly administered a drug used to treat septic shock has confidentially settled a claim against the treating medical center for $7 million, her attorneys report. Troy Stafford of ...

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  Two new justices will be joining the North Carolina Supreme Court, and four new judges are headed for the Court of Appeals, but the identity of the state’s next chief justice remains unknown pending a recount due to be ...

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Instead of welcoming Amy Wooten with coffee and pastries and showing her to her new office on her first day as a litigator at Ward and Smith’s Raleigh office in April, her new colleagues watched from a distance as she ...

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  The owners, builders, and architects of five Triad apartment complexes will spend $1.3 million to settle a complaint that apartments and public areas in their communities were inaccessible to disabled residents, their attorney reports. Jack Holtzman, of the North ...

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  The town of Carolina Beach has settled a class action claim that it illegally charged builders water and sewer fees for $850,000, the plaintiffs’ attorney reports. Hunter Bryson of Whitfield Bryson in Raleigh said that the settlement affects about ...

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North Carolina voters have spoken, although in some races it will still be a few more days until we find out what exactly they’ve said. By the end of the night on Nov. 3, the state’s board of elections had ...

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