North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Dec 23, 2021

Cherokee Co. to pay $4M for illegal separation

Cherokee County has agreed to pay $4 million to a woman who was unlawfully removed from her home when she was a minor by Department of Social Services employees who […]

Oct 6, 2021

City to pay $2M for police officer’s faked drug charges

The city of Raleigh will pay $2 million to 15 plaintiffs who claim that officers with the Raleigh Police Department used brown sugar and an unreliable confidential informant to […]

Jun 3, 2021

Illegal family separation by DSS leads to $4.6M verdict

A federal jury has awarded $4.6 million to a father and daughter after finding that Cherokee County and several of its Department of Social Services’ employees created and executed a fraudulent document to remove the girl […]

May 13, 2021

Justices consider hearing a case on ‘most offensive word’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other […]

Apr 26, 2021

Agreement reached on protests at North Carolina courthouse

BURLINGTON (AP) — Civil rights groups have settled a dispute with a North Carolina sheriff’s office over courthouse protests against a Confederate monument. The settlement guarantees that the grounds of […]

Jan 28, 2021

Suit: Armed group seeking teen targeted Black woman’s home

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A law firm that advocates for victims of racial discrimination has filed a lawsuit over an incident in North Carolina in which it said a Black woman’s […]

Dec 17, 2020

Man shot by police officer settles claim for $275K

A man who was shot in the face by a Wilmington police officer has settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the city of Wilmington and the Wilmington Police Department for […]

Apr 9, 2020

Wilmington man settles civil rights suit against detective for $500K

A Wilmington man who faced charges of first-degree rape and other sex crimes, all of which were eventually dismissed, has negotiated a $500,000 settlement with the detective who issued […]

Dec 13, 2019

Civil rights lawyers stake claim in Confederate statue case

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 […]

Dec 9, 2019

S.C. civil right lawyer, 1st Amendment champion dies

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 […]

Jun 26, 2018

Muslim worker says NC discriminating against him for beard

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 […]

Nov 22, 2017

Tort/Negligence – Civil Rights – False Arrest Claim – Waiver Agreement – Glider Pilot – Nuclear Power Plant

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 […]