North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  In a multi-faceted appeal of custodial responsibility for the daughter and son of a servicemember deployed to Africa, the North Carolina Court of Appeals addressed several issues of first impression arising from the Uniformed Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation. ...

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  A federal appeals court has underscored its insistence that attorneys’ fee awards take into account just how far short of the target a plaintiff’s arrow falls. Judges must compare the amount of damages sought to the amount awarded, the ...

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  A bank that waited 12 years to reform a deed of trust where it failed to secure a promissory note by the property was too late to obtain a judicial foreclosure, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled, reversing ...

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  A prosecutor’s assertion that a man accused of two brutal murders was “evil” and that the expert witnesses who testified on his behalf were “hacks” didn’t taint his right to a fair trial, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ...

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  Pamlico County will pay back to a pair of subdivision developers $600,000 that it charged in fees that should have been put toward infrastructure improvements in the rural but growing county but were put into an investment account instead, ...

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  A defendant who had the benefit of knowing how many years in prison he would face when he pleaded no contest to charges of being a habitual felon didn’t have good reason to later change his mind about the ...

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  A cattle farmer’s claim that he lost millions of dollars because a Wisconsin genetics company that specializes in in-vitro fertilization and genetic manipulation of prize cattle didn’t keep life-saving nitrogen in the tanks that preserved his bull semen and ...

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A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a major win for consumers who file class action lawsuits, making it more difficult for defendants to have their cases removed from state courts to federal courts. Now, in a way, ...

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  A class-action lawsuit against a debt collector has resulted in a $1.2 million settlement, the attorneys for the plaintiffs report.   The lawsuit was filed in 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and ...

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  The daughters of a single father who was killed after he was struck by a truck that failed to yield at a stop light has settled their case against the at-fault driver for $1 million, the family’s attorneys report. ...

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