North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals has overturned the 2017 murder convictions of a woman and her father in her husband’s death and ordered a new trial. The court said in its Feb. 4 ruling that it ...

An officer who shot a privately owned dog during the course of assisting with an arrest warrant lost his bid for dismissal and qualified immunity. Although the court had not previously held that it is unreasonable for a police officer ...

  There’s no getting out of a long-running battle between a South Carolina attorney and the businessmen he likened to TV mobster Tony Soprano. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the attorney, Paul ...

Tagged with: Fraud

Mark L. Bibbs was disbarred on Jan. 27, the same day he pleaded guilty in Wake County Superior Court to four misdemeanor counts of lobbying without registration, one misdemeanor count of obstruction of justice, and one misdemeanor count of criminal contempt. 

Tagged with: Bar Disciplinary Action

Where the jury was properly instructed, the district court did not err in answering a question from the jury, the defendant was permitted to develop his defense theory through cross-examination of an FBI agent and the jury’s verdict was supported ...

Where a multiyear software subscription contract was subject to an “appropriations” clause, and the record showed North Carolina’s Johnston County Board of Education decided not to appropriate money to the contract after the first year, the school board prevailed on ...

Where a suit filed in federal court alleged the defendants engaged in fraudulent conduct in prosecuting defamation suits in state court, it was not an attack on the state-court judgments and, as such, was not barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. Background In ...

Where an appellant brought a qui tam action pro se, the court joined other circuits in holding a relator cannot bring a pro se qui tam action under the False Claims Act, or FCA, because the federal government could be bound by an ...

Two servicemembers discharged after the Air Force determined that HIV made them unfit for service were granted a preliminary injunction because they were likely to show the government violated the Administrative Procedure Act, or APA; that they would suffer irreparable ...

The refusal to enforce an Iraqi judgment because of concerns about the availability of discovery and motions in the Iraqi legal system was based on flawed analysis. The question to be considered is whether the defendant defaulted his right to ...