The North Carolina Department of Transportation will have to pay $1 million to the family of a teenager who was killed on his way to school while crossing a road where the DOT had refused to install sidewalks or ...
Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck
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Death row inmates who sought to have their sentences reduced under the state’s Racial Justice Act before the law was repealed in 2013 may continue to argue their cases, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, holding that lawmakers’ ...
Tagged with: Racial Justice Act
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Courts don’t have to declare parents “unfit” in order to strip their custody and visitation rights if they find that it is in the children’s best interest for them to live with another parent, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ...
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“This has to stop.” With just four words, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has laid down a marker. The court was reviewing the case of a black homeless man in West Virginia who was stopped by a ...
Tagged with: 4th Circuit Black Lives Matter
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A family court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over a man who called his ex-girlfriend’s cellphone at least 28 times, not realizing that she’d moved to North Carolina, the state’s Court of Appeals has ruled. Marisa Mucha and Logan Wagner ...
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A Catawba County jury has returned a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the family of a woman who died after an outpatient gallbladder removal surgery, after which the two sides reached a confidential settlement over the amount of ...
Tagged with: Medical Malpractice
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State judges don’t have the power to order the release of detainees being held by local law enforcement pursuant to an agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the North Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously ruled. Luis Lopez ...
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The mother of a six-year-old boy who drowned in a cloudy hotel swimming pool has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the hotel and the woman who was looking after the boy for $1 million, the mother’s attorneys report. Mark Melrose ...
Tagged with: Wrongful Death
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A Winston-Salem attorney’s battle to keep one of her clients from being removed from the country will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling in the client’s favor that reinforces the government’s obligations to avoid deporting ...
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A U.S. district judge in South Carolina has granted a federal inmate’s motion for a reduced sentence in light of the presence of COVID-19 at his North Carolina prison facility. The order is reportedly the first in the state, ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
