North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  An employee who informed her supervisors that one of her co-workers was engaging in an extramarital affair will not be able to bring a wrongful discharge claim based on unlawful retaliation despite the existence of a constitutionally dubious state ...

Tagged with: Retaliation

  A man who was thrown 20 feet from his truck after he was hit by another truck that had run a stop sign has received an $825,000 award from an arbitration panel, his attorney reports. Carlos Mahoney of Glenn, ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

A Cumberland County jury has awarded $2 million to a man who was seriously injured when several 50-pound bags of dog food fell on his head while he was shopping at a Walmart in Hope Mills. Brent Adams of Dunn ...

Tagged with: Negligence

A Macon County man who brought five firearms onto the campus of an elementary school could be charged with only a single count of possession of a firearm on educational property because the relevant criminal statute is unclear about whether ...

Tagged with: Guns

  The North Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously reinstated the conviction of a white man convicted of murdering a black man in Raleigh, saying that while a portion of a prosecutor’s closing argument that discussed the defendant’s alleged animus towards ...

Tagged with: Prejudice

  A Wilmington man who faced charges of first-degree rape and other sex crimes, all of which were eventually dismissed, has negotiated a $500,000 settlement with the detective who issued the warrants for his arrest, the man’s attorney reports. Carlos ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Police Misconduct

  Payments made pursuant to an agreement between North Carolina’s Attorney General and a company whose swine farms were responsible for polluting the state’s waterways didn’t constitute “penalties” and therefore didn’t need to be turned over to the state’s Civil ...

Tagged with: hog farms

  For all the damage being wrought by COVID-19, the crisis has nevertheless highlighted humanity’s remarkable capacity for resourcefulness and adaptability. Some things that would have been difficult to even fathom in February have become practically routine in April. So ...

Tagged with: coronavirus remote video

The amount of solar power that bombards the Earth each hour is more than what the entire world consumes in a year. In a world of rising carbon emissions, harnessing more of that abundant power would be useful. But capturing ...

Tagged with: solar energy

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has issued a new order further extending the postponement of court proceedings, the North Carolina Judicial Branch announced on April 2. The new order contains seven emergency directives. It postpones court proceedings ...

Tagged with: coronavirus