North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Jason Boleman A federal court declared a town’s ban on livestreaming certain interactions may not survive First Amendment scrutiny, and that a plaintiff who was barred from livestreaming an interaction due to the policy “plausibly alleged” a constitutional violation.  ...

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By Nick Hurston  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a products liability and warranty judgment obtained by a non-profit eye bank against two suppliers of eyewash that was later revealed to be contaminated, rendering any recovered tissue ...

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By Jason Boleman  A deaf man who sued a hospital after it failed to provide him with an interpreter during his wife’s childbirth had his disability discrimination lawsuit reinstated by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.   The Fourth Circuit ...

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In 1970, Victoria Eslinger, a first-year law student at the University of South Carolina, approached a Senate clerk with her application to serve as a page.  “He leaned down and looked at me and said, ‘Well, you’re a girl,’ and I ...

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A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a jury’s $730,000 award to a Black Secret Service agent unconstitutionally detained by two white U.S. Park Police officers during a traffic stop as he waited to accompany a Cabinet secretary’s motorcade in Maryland. ...

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In the late night of Jan. 7, 2019, a fire explosion caused significant injury to two employees of an independently contracted janitorial team, Alvin Spencer and Frederick Avery, after being directed to clean grout with a flammable solvent by their ...

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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce its Power List for business defense. The Power List program recognizes top lawyers in a particular practice area. These attorneys are experts in their field, known for their expertise and accomplishments. Upcoming ...

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A Wake County mother and child were injured during a collision with a drunk driver. The plaintiffs have settled their claims against the driver and the establishments that served him for $2.51 million, the plaintiff’s attorneys, Winston Kirby and Andrew ...

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On Aug. 4, 2021, the defendant was driving a commercial dump truck on Moores Chapel Road in Mecklenburg County. According to the plaintiff counsel, Ronard Dixon, the defendant’s dump truck veered off the right side of the road and then made ...

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Swain Wood, who served as the first assistant attorney general of North Carolina, supervising the civil, criminal, multistate and appellate legal work of the Department of Justice under Josh Stein since 2017, recently rejoined Morningstar Law Group as a partner.   ...

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