North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jun 11, 2026

Mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT encouraged daughter’s suicide

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in U.S. court on Thursday alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to commit suicide, the latest lawsuit to accuse the […]

Mar 5, 2026

Lawsuit says Google’s Gemini AI chatbot drove man to suicide

Google was sued on March 4 by the family of a Florida man who said its Gemini AI chatbot, which he came to view as his “wife,” drove him to paranoia […]

Nov 4, 2024

Unsolved: The short arc of a falling Starr

By R. Marc Kantrowitz When Starr Faithfull went missing from her New York City home, her stepfather, Stanley, earnestly told the police that the attractive 25-year-old was virtuous, naive and […]

Jun 21, 2018

Constitutional – Shooting suicidal man was excessive force

An officer violated the Fourth Amendment in shooting a suicidal man who had a knife but was threatening only himself. The officer was entitled to qualified immunity, but the unconstitutionality […]

Aug 8, 2016

Criminal Practice — Murder – Suicide Possibility – Medical & Police Testimony

State v. Daughtridge (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-268-16, 30 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Durham County Superior Court (Henry Hight Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: A pathologist testified that a […]

Oct 24, 2015

Lawyer accused in fraud case appears to have killed himself

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Rock Hill attorney Horace Jones Jr. has appeared in many South Carolina courthouses over the past two decades, representing clients primarily on money matters. On […]

Mar 12, 2015

Suspect in NC couple’s death hangs himself in Raleigh prison

RALEIGH (AP) — One of two men accused of killing a Granville County couple earlier this year has hanged himself in the Central Prison in Raleigh. State prison officials said […]

Dec 12, 2014

FBI looking into teen’s hanging death

BLADENBORO (AP) — A prosecutor says the FBI is looking into the hanging death of a black North Carolina teen after his family questioned the official ruling that he killed […]

Jun 21, 2013

Court reluctant to expand firearm owner’s liability

When Catryn Bridges started dating 52-year-old Bernie Parrish, she didn’t know he had a history of escalating violence towards the women he’d dated, or that he’d been charged by those girlfriends with kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. During their rocky relationship, Bernie’s behavior escalated until March 2011, when he drove to the veterinary office where Bridges worked and sho[...]