North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A trial judge who declined to conduct a competency hearing before proceeding with a criminal trial after the defendant overdosed on anti-anxiety medication midway through the trial did not commit a reversible error, a divided panel of the North ...

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  A former truck driver who was injured in a work-related accident will receive $2.37 million after he settled a lawsuit against his former employer and its insurance company, his attorneys report. Michael Greer and John Hensley of Hensley Cloninger ...

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A federal jury has ordered three Wake County sheriff’s deputies to pay an Apex man $8.32 million after he was stopped and then unlawfully shot while on his property. Robert Zaytoun and Matt Ballew of Zaytoun Ballew & Taylor in Raleigh ...

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  As representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified before members of the U.S. House of Representatives last month regarding recent illnesses connected to vaping products, the parallels with another ...

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  A trial court abused her discretion when she ordered a father to pay child support arrears of $24,400 at the rate of $100 per month—which would have taken more than 20 years—when his income allowed him to pay the ...

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Attorneys for faculty members at medical schools at Duke University and the University of North Carolina will receive $18.16 million in legal fees as part of $54.5 million class action settlement that was agreed to in May and officially approved ...

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  A federal jury found that a man who was shot and killed by a Hope Mills police officer after a high-speed chase had not complied with the officer’s repeated demands to show his hands, a conclusion that led a ...

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A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals panel has reversed the conviction of a Brunswick County woman because the police officer who applied for a search warrant to raid the woman’s home had relied on the accounts of middleman that ...

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  Employment in a tire factory did not expose employees to airborne asbestos of a kind and in amounts sufficient to cause or contribute to asbestosis or other asbestos-related diseases, a panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

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  A year after Hurricane Florence forced the closing of the Jones County Courthouse in Trenton, court is now back in session in the historic building.  When the storm tore through Jones County in early September 2018, up to 20 ...

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