GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — One man was killed and two more were wounded in a shootout near a North Carolina courthouse that was placed on lockdown as a result, police said. Greensboro police said in a news release that Avion ...

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An employee cannot break the law in order to collect evidence in support of a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled Nov. 15. Judge Diana Motz wrote that for an employee’s actions to be ...

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Law enforcement officials say half the 26 homicides in Guilford County in 2013 were the result of domestic violence, a big increase from the year before.

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Guilford County has two floors of its new $100 million jail closed because of a lack of funding.

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Gary L. Davis, CPA, P.A. v. Hall While the parties’ employment contract did not contain a forum selection clause, it did contain a consent-to-jurisdiction clause.

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Most people are dismayed to find themselves named as a defendant in a lawsuit. The district court judges of Guilford County are getting used to it. Most recently, two judges were served August 2 with a suit alleging “grand theft auto” filed by a woman who had been pulled over for a traffic stop. It’s all part of a campaign of harassment by so-called “sovereign citizens.”

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After she was fired from the Guilford County Department of Social Services in 1999, Sandra Wilkins sued the agency, claiming that an increased dosage of Adderall for her attention deficit disorder had caused a drop-off in her performance and led to the firing. But the Court of Appeals found four years later that her performance didn’t decline with the new dosage; in fact, after a month on that dosage, Wilkins received the second-highest rating on a job performance evaluation.

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L & S Water Power, Inc. v. Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0405, 19 pp.) (J. Douglas McCullough, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court. (Calvin E. Murphy, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of ...

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McDowell v. Central Station Original Interiors, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0406, 14 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court. (Edgar B. Gregory, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: The trial ...

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Chase Development Group v. Fisher, Clinard & Cornwell, PLLC. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0395, 22 pp.) (Sanford L. Steelman Jr., J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (Catherine C. Eagles, J.). N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the ...

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