North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the July 2021 North Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to recognize those who passed ...

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  North Carolina’s courts have jurisdiction over a company whose predecessor stands accused of dumping hazardous “forever chemicals” into the land, air, and water around the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville, a Business Court judge has ruled in a case ...

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Farmers in Duplin County and adjacent areas should see an estimated $32 million in federal compensation after the resolution of a court case over a hurricane wind endorsement to an insurance policy, the farmers’ attorneys report.  Scott Flowers and Damon ...

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  H.H. Holmes, considered by some to be America’s first serial killer, would sometimes take out life insurance policies on his intended victims. This entrepreneurialism had several consequences, one of which was Holmes’ execution in 1896. It also helped motivate ...

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  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has put the brakes on a lawsuit that was filed against a school district on behalf of a vulnerable special needs student who was sexually assaulted on an outsourced vehicle that transported her to school.  The court affirmed on Sept. 7 the dismissal of the student’s claims ...

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  A defendant whose probation was revoked by a district court judge won't be able to appeal that decision to superior court because he waived his right to a revocation hearing, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled ...

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  The estate of a North Carolina couple that died in a plane crash will be able to move forward with a lawsuit against the maker of the plane’s engine after the North Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a lower ...

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  A railroad company that’s wholly owned by the state of North Carolina but operates as an independent corporation isn’t subject to the state’s Public Records Act, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a case of first impression.  ...

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  The constitutional right to counsel is a right to competent and effective counsel, but in North Carolina, there are concerns that the public defense system created to defend those who can’t afford to defend themselves is failing. The executive director of the state’s Office of Indigent Defense Services (IDS), Mary Pollard, said that many ...

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  A criminal defendant doesn’t forfeit their right to remain silent by giving pre-trial notice of their intent to offer the affirmative defense of duress, and prosecutors may not preemptively impeach a defendant during its case-in-chief, the North Carolina Supreme ...

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