North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

When two major national retailers, J. Crew and Neiman Marcus, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the first week of May, the news reports read like obituaries, with the novel coronavirus being listed as the companies’ cause of death. But ...

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  Even before the current recession, courts in North Carolina were struggling to deal with a steady growth in the number of people trying to navigate the judicial system without the aid of an attorney. The uptick in pro se ...

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Judicial branch officials have long warned that once the state’s courts return to full operations, they will be faced with an unprecedented blizzard of filings and backlog of cases due to the COVID-19 crisis, and now, newly released figures from ...

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Landowners whose development rights were frozen under the now-defunct Map Act scored a major victory after the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling largely affirming a Cumberland County jury verdict that awarded hefty sums of interest and attorneys’ ...

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In a collision between the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the North Carolina Public Records Act, public universities lack the discretion to decide whether to disclose disciplinary records of students who have violated the school’s sexual assault ...

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As North Carolina goes into its third month of COVID-19 lockdown, albeit with the easing of some restrictions, attorneys say that the number of reported cases of abuse and neglect are down. And that’s not such a good thing. As ...

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  A Watauga County man who loudly confronted jurors as they left the courtroom after convicting his twin brother of assaulting a police officer shouldn’t have been convicted of conspiracy to intimidate a juror, a narrowly divided North Carolina Supreme ...

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    The appeal of a $3 million verdict against a man who shot another man in a Concord parking lot will go down in history as the first time that the North Carolina Court of Appeals has heard oral ...

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Teeing up a circuit split, a 4th U.S. Court of Appeals panel has held that a party to private arbitration in the United Kingdom can obtain testimony from residents of South Carolina for use in the arbitration. Servotronics supplied valves ...

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  Defendants who have pleaded guilty to a crime may still seek post-conviction DNA testing to uncover new evidence in their cases if there’s a reasonable possibility that the results would have been relevant to their defense, a divided North ...

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