RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked a local North Carolina district attorney from prosecuting state Attorney General Josh Stein or anyone else for his 2020 campaign ad through a criminal libel law.  The majority on a ...

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The plaintiff-town disagreed with the trial court’s ruling that its condemnation of defendant’s land was for a private purpose, so the town filed a motion under N.C. R. Civ. P. 59, seeking the trial court’s consideration of evidence that had ...

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As a result of a recording malfunction, there is a 98-minute gap in defendant’s trial transcript. Despite appellate counsel’s efforts – attempting to contact the trial judge, repeatedly attempting to contact trial counsel and the court reporter, and speaking to ...

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Plaintiff alleges negligent entrustment against both a car dealership and the purchaser of a car whose driver caused an accident that resulted in the death of plaintiff’s decedent. Nevertheless, she has not shown that she is entitled to an immediate ...

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An order for a stay pending appeal found that defendant had posted a $30,000 bond, but the order only required defendant to pay rents collected from the disputed properties to the clerk of court. Therefore, after plaintiffs succeeded on appeal, ...

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An attorney instructed her paralegal to hand-deliver and file notices of appeal with the Property Tax Commission and to mail copies to the county revenue director and the county attorney; nevertheless the paralegal mistakenly hand-delivered, filed and mailed the papers ...

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In the same order, the trial court denied plaintiffs’ motion for a stay and granted defendants’ motion to dismiss. Since plaintiffs’ motion under N.C. R. Civ. P. 59 only sought relief from the trial court’s denial of their motion for ...

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Defendant gave oral notice – but not the required written notice – that he wished to appeal the trial court’s satellite-based monitoring (SBM) order. In the past, this court has issued a writ of certiorari to hear SBM appeals; however, ...

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On a prior appeal, we held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by granting defendant a distributive award; nevertheless, that award was based on a net valuation that was altered by our directives in that appeal. Since ...

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Where G.S. §§ 7A-29(a) and 126-34.02(a) provided petitioner a legally sufficient method for obtaining judicial review of the administrative law judge’s decision – by direct appeal to this court – the plain language of G.S. § 150B-43 prohibited petitioner from ...

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