North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The Supreme Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands has ruled that a judgment entered in favor of a North Carolina man in Johnston County court was void and unconstitutional, the latest twist in a long-running legal dispute that has ...

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  The family of a man who was killed after the driver of a dump truck rear-ended his car has settled a lawsuit against the at-fault driver and his employer for $1 million, the family’s attorney reports. Matthew Sullivan of ...

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  The pass rate for North Carolina’s July 2020 bar exam, administered under a cloud of controversy created by COVID-19, increased by more than 10 percentage points over last year’s exam, to just over 83 percent, according to figures released ...

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  Thousands of North Carolinians who were convicted of offenses as teenagers will have those charges removed from their records in the coming weeks as district attorneys in eight counties filed motions to expunge them. District attorneys representing Rockingham, Caswell, ...

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The mother of a Wayne County jail inmate who died after he was allegedly refused psychiatric treatment, severely beaten and hogtied by detention officers, and tased by a state trooper has settled a federal lawsuit for $985,000, her attorney reports. ...

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  An arbitration panel has awarded $2.48 million to the father of a delivery man who was killed after he hit a parked SUV that was blocking the road in a highway, the family’s attorney reports. Walter Wood of the ...

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  A man who was severely injured when he crashed head-on with an impaired driver who died in the resulting wreck has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the at-fault driver’s estate and his employer for $825,000, his attorneys report. Ann ...

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  A husband and wife who were both injured after a tractor-trailer rear-ended the husband’s car as he was aiding his wife on the side of a North Carolina highway have confidentially settled a lawsuit against the at-fault driver and ...

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  Following a virtual trial in which the judge, attorneys, parties, and witnesses were all scattered along the east coast, a Pennsylvania judge has ordered a trucking company and an at-fault driver to pay a North Carolina truck driver $3.04 ...

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  A farmer who was seriously injured after he stopped on the side of a road to fix his truck and was struck by a van that had veered off the road has confidentially settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the ...

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