North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A woman serving 19 years in prison for killing her paramour inside her bedroom will get a new trial after the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously determined that the trial court erred by instructing the jury on the aggressor ...

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A trial court did not abuse its discretion in disqualifying an attorney from appearing on behalf of himself or his law firm, both named as defendants in a legal malpractice action, a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of ...

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By Nicholas A. Hurston  Where a claimant’s defamation suit was dismissed with a warning that further frivolous pleadings might justify sanctions, her subsequently filed claims based on new conduct were not frivolous and did not warrant sanctions.  The 4th U.S. ...

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By Nicholas A. Hurston  The Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, erred when it found a petitioner ineligible for waiver of removal because his U.S. citizen father was no longer living, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.  ...

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A discovery order that would have barred attorneys from being physically present with their clients during remotely-conducted depositions was a violation of the litigants’ due process right to the assistance of counsel, a divided panel of the North Carolina Court ...

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Minority and underserved populations in Charlotte have a straighter path to justice and prosperity thanks to the efforts of Kimberly Zirkle, a member at Moore and Van Allen of Charlotte, and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year. ...

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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the February 2022 North Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to recognize those who passed ...

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An unusual combination of product and premises liability has netted a $2.5 million settlement for a repairman who was badly burned in a kitchen explosion. Justin Osborn and Matthew Gambale of Osborn, Gambale, Beckley & Budd in Raleigh said that ...

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A “sugar baby” who threatened to include a Charlotte man in a racy memoir of their adulterous dating service trysts unless he paid her significant hush money wasn’t entitled to a “true threat” analysis before she was convicted of extortion, ...

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BY JASON BOLEMAN  A former Virginia high school student’s First Amendment claim against a county’s school board has been reinstated after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the former student’s complaint “plausibly alleges a First Amendment claim.”  The ...

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