An African-American defendant who was convicted of drug and firearm charges may not interview the convicting jurors for signs of racial animus, despite a juror’s statement that his peer expressed racial prejudice during deliberations, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
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A Mecklenburg County Superior Court didn’t have jurisdiction to grant the habeas corpus petitions of two men who were arrested by the local sheriff’s office and detained pursuant to a written agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the ...
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This is the third in a series of articles looking at how the aging of America’s population is affecting the practice of law. Divorce rates in the United States have been on a steady decline for decades, but one group ...
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Democratic civil rights attorney Anita Earls has won an eight-year term on North Carolina’s Supreme Court in an election where voters also soundly rejected two proposed amendments to the state’s constitution that would have stripped the governor’s office of the ...
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When Lawyers Weekly publishes its annual list of the largest law firms in the Carolinas next spring, some of the mainstays of the rankings will be bearing new names on their marquees, part of a growing trend of local and ...
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A federal judge overstepped in imposing a sweeping gag order in a contentious series of nuisance lawsuits against the world’s largest pork producer, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. “Gag orders should be a last resort, not ...
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A delegation from Moldova, a developing nation on the easternmost edge of Europe, just traveled to North Carolina to learn about the state’s judicial system. And North Carolina attorneys and judges learned from them, too. The trip was part of ...
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While it may be said that the greatest wealth is to live content with little, this idea may be small consolation to the growing population of elderly Americans filing for personal bankruptcy.
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A nuanced legal issue is like a compelling work of art—open to more than one interpretation. In the case of one city’s decision to lease an historic building to a local arts guild, the North Carolina Supreme Court saw a ...
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In 2011, David Redding of Redding Jones of Charlotte was a family man who worked hard as a commercial attorney. But there were two things missing in his life: consistency in his fitness routine, and male bonding. “I would get ...
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