North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Domestic violence victims petitioning for a protective order will need to include any alleged acts of domestic violence in writing in their complaints, or else lose the right to introduce them as evidence, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

Tagged with: domestic violence

A North Carolina newspaper has lost an appeal against a $6 million libel verdict awarded to a former firearms analyst at the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation after a Court of Appeals ruling finding that the evidence in the case ...

Tagged with: libel

Interest on the award from a judgment must be calculated from the time the district court originally entered judgment when that judgment is later vacated and then reinstated by the appellate court, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

  A Mecklenburg County man convicted of possessing a firearm won’t get a new trial, even though the jury that convicted him received an instruction that was unsupported by the state’s evidence, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The ...

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Smoke has long been used for sending signals, but the North Carolina Supreme Court has sent some clear signals to stock owners while resolving a spat over smokes. On Dec. 7 a narrowly divided court stubbed out a shareholders’ revolt ...

Tagged with: fiduciary

A federal prisoner’s sentence must be reconsidered, again, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, this time giving weight to a state court’s order for concurrent sentences. This is the second time the 4th Circuit has heard the ...

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An asylum applicant from the west African nation of Benin who received death threats after neighbors and family in his home country discovered he was bisexual is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite a ruling by the ...

Tagged with: immigration

The North Carolina State Bar has taken the lead in the United States concerning privacy and data security law by being the first state bar in the country to certify attorneys as specialists in the field. “Privacy and information security ...

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  A battle over the constitutionality of North Carolina’s law against juror harassment is headed to the state’s Supreme Court after a divided Court of Appeals panel rejected a legal challenge brought by a man convicted of conspiring to harass ...

Tagged with: Free Speech

  A Rowan County man convicted of molesting a young child did not do enough to assert his right to a speedy trial during the 63-month period between his arrest and trial, and as a result, his constitutional right to ...

Tagged with: Trial