By PAUL THARP, Staff Writer paul.tharp@nc.lawyersweekly.com A man who subpoenaed a law firm that represented his ex-fiancée in a dispute over an engagement agreement has to pay the law firm for the time it spent responding to what the trial court ...
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Read More »While the legislature continues to debate what may be the biggest change to state law in decades in the form of S. 813 the comparative negligence bill the state appellate courts and federal district courts have been churning out opinions ...
Read More »A million-dollar settlement by the Charlotte Roman Catholic Diocese with a young victim of sex abuse is the latest success for attorney Seth H. Langson, whose practice is devoted solely to the representation of sexual abuse victims. The order to ...
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Read More »News of guilty pleas from principals of Charlotte’s Settlement Source who admitted to embezzling $2.4 million from clients in real estate transactions between 2005 and 2007 may not have come as a surprise to attorneys familiar with the growing problem ...
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Read More »Motorists injured in a 2008 pileup on I-40 in Buncombe County should not be able to recover from the maker of a communications device a trucker was using at the time, a federal magistrate has recommended in a case that ...
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Read More »Elevators, elevators, elevators. That topped the wish lists for many court officials when they were asked what features they wanted to see in the new Wake County Justice Center. Come 2013, their hopes will be fulfilled. Ground broke on the ...
Read More »Darden v. Darden. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0407, 4 pp.) (John C. Martin, Ch.J.) Appealed from Guilford County District Court (Teresa Vincent, J.). N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: A trial court’s order that the defendant’s child support and spousal support payments “should ...
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Read More »State v. Rice. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0406, 17 pp.) (Robert C. Hunter, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Timothy L. Patti, J.). N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The trial court properly admitted a hearsay statement by the victim that the ...
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Read More »E.B. Harris, Inc. v. Wiggins. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0405, 13 pp.) (Linda M. McGee, J.) Appealed from Warren County District Court (Randolph Baskerville, J.). N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the defendant timely filed a motion for an extension of time ...
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