CHARLOTTE (AP) Prosecutors have dropped all 28 counts of sex crimes against a police officer in North Carolina because they don’t have enough evidence to prove the case. Authorities charged Matthew Porter in February after a family friend said the ...

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Under clearly established law, publication of public safety officers’ allegedly defamatory termination letters to the media before holding a name-clearing hearing supported the officers’ claims of due process violations. Background During the summer of 2014, Officers with the Bald Head ...

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Bryant v. Village of Bald Head Island (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-02-0806, 12 pp.) (Malcolm Howard, S.J.) 7:14-cv-00223; E.D.N.C. Holding: By publishing allegedly false explanations for firing plaintiff and refusing to give him a hearing to refute the explanations, defendant may ...

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Ironically, Daniel Truhan was in a hurry to get to the scene of an accident. A Wayne County woman who was injured when Truhan’s patrol car collided with her truck will now be able to pursue her negligence lawsuit against ...

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ASHEVILLE — Asheville is appealing a state Court of Appeals decision that it must reinstate a police officer fired after racist and pornographic images were found on a computer he rented. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports officer Roger Aly rented the ...

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State v. Jackson (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0467, 22 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) (Chris Dillon, J., dissenting) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (C.W. Bragg, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A police officer did not have a reasonable suspicion of unlawful activity ...

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City of Asheville v. Aly (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0402, 22 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Buncombe County Superior Court (James Downs, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The petitioner-city was not justified in firing a police officer who (1) rented a ...

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Brown v. Town of Chapel Hill (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0286, 60 pp.) (Robert C. Hunter, J.) Appealed from Orange County Superior Court (Carl Fox, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Where a police officer mistook plaintiff for another person – who was ...

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State v. Alexander (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0244, 22 pp.) (Martha Geer, J.) Appealed from Catawba County Superior Court (H. William Constangy, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although the trial court found that the police officer viewed evidence of a theft from ...

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Mountaineer Financial Services, LLC v. City of Hendersonville (Lawyers Weekly No. 13-04-1005, 16 pp.) (Martin Reidinger, J.) 1:13-cv-00203; W.D.N.C. Holding: Even if plaintiff could show a protectable property interest in operating a business, the defendant-city did not deprive him of ...

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