North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A bail bond surety doesn’t have to immediately return a premium to a defendant if a good-faith mistake leads to an alleged pre-trial breach of bond conditions and the surety, after realizing the mistake, re-writes the bond without charging another ...

Tagged with: bail bonds

A 25-year-old Johnson County man who was severely injured when his vehicle crashed into a commercial vehicle that had crossed the center line while making a right turn has settled his personal injury case for $1.275 million, his attorneys report. ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

The estate of a man who was killed when his vehicle was struck by a distracted driver has settled its wrongful death suit for $1.8 million, the estate’s attorneys report.  Daniel Wallace and Mona Lisa Wallace of Wallace & Graham ...

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Repeated discovery violations committed by a real estate holding company and its owner-founder justified the “harsh” of striking their pleadings and entering a default judgment, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case involving a billionaire currently ...

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The peremptory striking of a Black juror by a prosecutor who couldn’t provide the trial court with an acceptable race-neutral reason for the dismissal constituted a substantive violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to equal protection, a divided North Carolina ...

Tagged with: Batson Challenge

A Guatemalan man seeking asylum will get a review of his case because an immigration judge applied an improper standard when determining whether the man reasonably feared persecution or torture if he were sent back to his home country, a ...

Tagged with: immigration

A bicyclist who crashed into a vehicle that had pulled in front of him has settled his suit for $1.3 million, his attorney reports.  Ann Groninger of Johnson & Groninger in Charlotte reports that her client and two other cyclists ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

A 73-year-old woman whose husband was killed in a car wreck in a work zone has settled her wrongful death suit for $3.6 million, her attorneys report.   Donald Dunn of Riddle & Brantley in Goldsboro and David Kirby of ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

The owners of a shopping center in Wilmington have reached a $6.6 million settlement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation after a dispute over how easements and other issues would impact parking, the landowners’ attorneys report.  George Autry Jr., ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

A surgeon’s decision to leave a fabric barrier in a patient’s body permanently had a therapeutic purpose at the time the barrier was implanted, and so a subsequent lawsuit couldn’t benefit from the longer statute of limitations for medical malpractice ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice