Sidebar knows that many attorneys are history buffs, and we recently came across a tidbit that’s germane to not only our history, but practice of law in North Carolina as well. It’s well-known in legal circles that Tabitha Anne Holton ...

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We don’t intend to keep beating a dead horse. Or to kick a law school while it’s defunct. Or to imply that it didn’t produce some outstanding graduates and attorneys. But nearly nine months after the Charlotte School of Law ...

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A running “funny” in this Sidebar reporter’s household is calling mimosas — the wonderful concoction of champagne and citrus juice — “mimosos.” The colloquialism spawned from an episode of “Bridezillas” in which the nettled wife-to-be exclaimed that while she didn’t ...

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An attempt to speak with a press person at the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office about an opinion from the state Supreme Court resulted in a trip down the bureaucratic rabbit hole earlier this month. The office is in the ...

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Imagine heading out for a drive – a trip to the store or the cleaners, and the next thing you know, you’re on the roof of a house. It happened in Winston-Salem on Dec. 30. The Associated Press reported that ...

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A facetiously nicknamed 30-year-old Colorado law aimed at protecting citizens in the friendly confines of their own homes has become deadly serious, prompting lawmakers to try and clarify what a dwelling is. In prison, it’s not uncommon to hear an ...

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The state trooper fired in 2009 for lying to his superiors about what happened to his $45 state-issued, wide-brimmed hat has been granted a new lease on life by the North Carolina Supreme Court. In its Dec. 18 decision, the ...

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We here at Sidebar are generally not fond of things that aim to eliminate sidebar, but upon closer inspection of a recent headline, the proposition of a federal judge in Iowa seems to be more juror-friendly than Sidebar-detrimental. As reported ...

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Ignorance of the law is no excuse—or it wasn’t until last December, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that even a police officer’s incorrect beliefs about the law could sufficiently justify a traffic stop, so long as the officer’s mistake ...

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In Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Antony describes his crocodile as “shap’d, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth; it is just as high as it is, and … of its own color too.” Sadly, Instagram ...

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