North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Rockingham County will pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a father of two young children who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in his driveway, according to court documents and the family’s ...

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  Attorneys who feel stung by a one-star review are entitled to push back against any negative reviews they receive online, so long as their rebuttal is “proportional and restrained” and doesn’t disclose confidential client information, a newly proposed ethics ...

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  A married couple who slammed into a logging truck that was illegally blocking traffic has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the at-fault driver for $1 million, their attorneys report. Aindrea Pledger, Tom Comerford, and John Chilson of Comerford, Chilson, ...

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  A surgeon who placed a stent that was later sheared off during a subsequent surgery and ended up in the patient’s heart was properly allowed to beat back a negligence lawsuit by arguing that the second doctor had committed ...

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  A man who claims that Columbus County prosecutors wrongfully excluded black potential jurors from the jury that convicted him of first-degree murder couldn’t bring enough evidence to convince the North Carolina Court of Appeals that the exclusions were improper ...

Tagged with: Batson Challenge

  The owners of a Wake County property that the North Carolina Department of Transportation took for the construction of the Southern Wake Expressway have received $3.4 million for the 6.1 acres that were taken, more than four times the ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

An Iredell County jury has awarded the owner of a steel tubing manufacturer $2.1 million after his former business partner used the company’s money to buy stock shares that gave him ownership of half of the business and boost his ...

Tagged with: Fraud

The Town of Holly Springs has paid nearly $8 million to settle a water and sewer impact fee lawsuit filed by developers, the first class-action settlement of its kind in the state since the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in ...

Tagged with: Class Action

When Arne Wilberg, a former YouTube employee, sued Google in March 2018, it was not your typical employment discrimination lawsuit. Wilberg accused the company of favoring women and minorities in its internal hiring policies, in turn discriminating against white and ...

Tagged with: discrimination

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld the legality of a legislative session Republicans quickly called in December 2016 to push through laws that weakened the power of incoming Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The unanimous Jan. 21 decision affirmed ...

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