RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts. A majority of the full U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that ...

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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) Lawyers for residents suing a company that makes a chemical that’s been found in private wells near its North Carolina plant have asked a federal judge to supervise communications between the defendant and their clients. The Fayetteville Observer reports plaintiffs’ ...

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A national law firm with ties to North Carolina has helped win a $383.5 million verdict in three wrongful death cases against a dialysis company accused of giving the patients a treatment without consulting with their doctors. The plaintiffs alleged ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Relatives of a North Carolina man fatally shot by a deputy can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit after a judge found sufficient evidence that his constitutional rights were violated. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle rejected a request ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) A federal judge said June 25 he was “at a loss” to understand how transgender North Carolinians are being harmed by a compromise law that undid the state’s “bathroom bill” but also prevented local governments from enacting new LGBT ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Transgender plaintiffs who think the compromise that replaced North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill” is still discriminatory are heading back to court. A federal judge will hear arguments June 25 from lawyers representing Republican legislative leaders who say the case ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The former head of a North Carolina health care company has received a prison sentence in connection with a Medicaid fraud scheme. A news release from the U.S. Department of Justice said 47-year-old Shephard Spruill was sentenced to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Industrial-scale hog producers knew for decades that noxious smells from open-air sewage pits tormented neighbors but didn’t change their livestock-raising methods to keep production costs low, the lawyer for farm neighbors told jurors in a federal lawsuit April ...

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Sidebar ponders what Blackbeard would think were he to encounter a modern digital pirate. It seems a safe assumption that he would not think highly of those who download and share files illegally, not because he disagreed with the act ...

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For the first time in 28 years, pay for federal jurors has increased, but it still remains below the federal minimum wage. The change was included in the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill that passed March 23, the Washington Post ...

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