A national civil rights group has warned the leaders of the University of North Carolina that they should reconsider a $2.5 million settlement involving a statue of a Confederate soldier that protesters toppled last year at the system’s flagship campus. ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina civil rights lawyer who helped redefine free speech rights for attorneys has died. Edna Smith Primus died Nov. 29 at age 75, The State newspaper reported. One of the first black women to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A supervisor used a racial slur to describe a Muslim worker and suggested he only converted to Islam to keep his beard, according to a discrimination complaint filed by a civil rights group against a North Carolina state ...

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Cox v. Duke Energy Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-204-17, 23 pp.) (Paul Niemeyer, J.) 16-6625; Nov. 20, 2017; USDC at Florence, S.C. (Bruce Hendricks, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The plaintiff-glider pilot, who flew near a nuclear power plant, waived his false arrest claim ...

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Braswell v. Medina (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-261-17, 28 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Nash County Superior Court (Allen Baddour, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though a grand jury indicted plaintiff for obtaining property by false pretenses, since the complaint ...

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Conservatives unhappy with the work of a civil rights center at the University of North Carolina say a ban on litigation is meant to spare legal clinics while applying only to academic centers. A revised version of the ban makes ...

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Tahir v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-023-17, 10 pp.) (James Dever III, C.J.) 5:16-cv-00781; E.D.N.C. Holding: Plaintiff’s allegation that his termination by the FBI was harsher than usual punishment does not equal a plausible allegation that the FBI had failed ...

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Triangle Catering, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-018-17, 25 pp.) (Louise Flanagan, J.) 5:15-cv-00016; E.D.N.C. Holding: Where defendant’s termination of employee Michael Reddick included references to his wearing of a hat or “Rastafarian crown,” plaintiff has ...

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Felton v. Gates County Board of Education (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-009-17, 13 pp.) (W. Earl Britt, S.J.) 2:15-cv-00020; E.D.N.C. Holding: Defendant’s human resources director (1) knew that plaintiff had filed an EEOC complaint against a neighboring school system and (2) ...

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Woods v. Salem Electric Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-002-17, 19 pp.) (Loretta Biggs, J.) 1:15-cv-00525; M.D.N.C. Holding: According to the African-American plaintiff, his white supervisor responded to a question by saying he was going to get a noose and tighten ...

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