North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Direct evidence of government payment or receipt of fraudulent services must be alleged for a False Claims Act lawsuit to survive a motion to dismiss, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, dismissing a former maintenance technician’s ...

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  A trial court judge properly set aside a jury verdict that awarded a medical malpractice plaintiff a single dollar in damages, but erred in entering an amended judgment awarding the plaintiff more than $500,000, a divided North Carolina Supreme ...

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A superior court judge went too far when he issued an order completely sealing the file of a sexual assault lawsuit against a prominent Fayetteville car dealership owner, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. The court was not ...

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Domestic violence victims petitioning for a protective order will need to include any alleged acts of domestic violence in writing in their complaints, or else lose the right to introduce them as evidence, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

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A North Carolina newspaper has lost an appeal against a $6 million libel verdict awarded to a former firearms analyst at the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation after a Court of Appeals ruling finding that the evidence in the case ...

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Interest on the award from a judgment must be calculated from the time the district court originally entered judgment when that judgment is later vacated and then reinstated by the appellate court, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

  A Mecklenburg County man convicted of possessing a firearm won’t get a new trial, even though the jury that convicted him received an instruction that was unsupported by the state’s evidence, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The ...

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Smoke has long been used for sending signals, but the North Carolina Supreme Court has sent some clear signals to stock owners while resolving a spat over smokes. On Dec. 7 a narrowly divided court stubbed out a shareholders’ revolt ...

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A federal prisoner’s sentence must be reconsidered, again, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, this time giving weight to a state court’s order for concurrent sentences. This is the second time the 4th Circuit has heard the ...

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An asylum applicant from the west African nation of Benin who received death threats after neighbors and family in his home country discovered he was bisexual is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite a ruling by the ...

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