North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The Map Act may be gone, but it is certainly not forgotten. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has agreed to another big-dollar settlement with a family whose land rights were frozen under the act, this time agreeing to pay ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain Map Act

A years-long effort to prosecute a Henderson County man accused of trying to beat his wife to death may have reached its end. The North Carolina Court of Appeals instructed the trial court to dismiss all of the remaining charges, ...

Tagged with: Double Jeopardy

Coleman Cowan had just wrapped up a deposition at a doctor’s office in Durham when a bullet from a robber’s gun shattered his arm–and shifted his paradigm. He and another lawyer had been chatting in the doctor’s parking lot at ...

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  A Wake County family whose land was seized to make way for construction of the Southern Wake Expressway will receive $3.25 million from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, almost four times as much as the DOT initially offered, ...

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  A 14-year-old who was born with cerebral palsy after he was injured in a car crash when his mother was seven months pregnant has reached a $2.5 million confidential settlement with the at-fault driver and his employer, his attorneys ...

Tagged with: Automobile Accident

An Uber driver whose arm was amputated after her car collided with another at an intersection has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the City of Charlotte and others for $1.5 million, her attorney reports. Coleman Cowan of the Law Offices ...

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  A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina. Mark A. Davis. Carolina Academic Press. 208 pages. Much has been written about the most influential chief justices and epochs of ...

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The CEO and COO for Duke Energy will have to sit for depositions as the company wrangles with its insurers over the costs of cleaning up after the 2014 Dan River coal ash spill after the North Carolina Business Court ...

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A man’s hand gestures, demeanor, violent criminal history, and other factors were enough for a police officer to search his vehicle during a late-night traffic stop in a high-crime area because the officer feared he was armed and dangerous, a ...

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North Carolina Reports, the official publication of the North Carolina Supreme Court opinions, has been around since 1778–a time when the musical Hamilton would have been a jaunty summary of breaking news. But its book-and-page number method for citing previous ...

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