North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A motorist struck by a tractor-trailer in North Carolina has obtained a $2.1 million settlement, his attorney reports.  “He saw the truck coming from behind in his rearview,” said Michael Greer of Hensley, Cloninger & Greer. “He realized that the ...

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  In a year in which the legal profession faced unprecedented challenges, lawyers across North Carolina not only continued to provide access to justice for the less fortunate, but even managed to substantially increase the amount of pro bono legal services they provided, a ...

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The judgment may be more symbolic than substantive, but a Craven County jury has awarded $10.755 million to a 71-year-old woman who was injured in a head-on collision with an impaired driver, her attorney reports.   Carlos Mahoney of Glenn, Mills, Fisher & ...

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  A promissory note is executed on the date it is signed, regardless of the date appearing on the face of the document, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in a case of first impression. The court ...

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  Many of the young people who stand before North Carolina judges are—in part, at least—products of traumatic events beyond their control. So, a new, diverse task force of state judicial branch stakeholders and subject-matter experts is intent on understanding ...

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  State laws require all drivers to yield the right-of-way to any pedestrians passing through a marked crosswalk, but bicyclists don’t qualify as “pedestrians” for the purposes of those laws, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in ...

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  Six plaintiffs alleging numerous civil rights violations have settled their lawsuit against the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office and several deputies for $6 million, the limits of the agency’s insurance policy, their attorneys report. The plaintiffs were represented by Robert Zaytoun, Matthew Ballew, ...

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A Concord-based transportation management company did not commit age discrimination when it dismissed a former employee after eliminating his position, a federal jury has ruled.   Attorneys Bernard Tisdale, Kathleen Lucchesi, and Joshua Adams of Jackson Lewis in Charlotte report that their client, Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation, terminated ...

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  When deciding whether a sperm donor qualifies as the “parent” of a minor child conceived via artificial insemination, a court should apply the paternity laws of the state where the insemination and birth took place, a unanimous panel of ...

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  Allegedly malicious misrepresentations that were made during a public hearing in opposition to a proposed land rezoning constituted protected petitioning activity and thus couldn’t form the basis of a lawsuit alleging tortious interference, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ...

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