NEW BERN (AP) A federal judge has dismissed a challenge by residents and property owners to a proposed bridge at the North Carolina Outer Banks. News outlets report the 46-page decision by U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan on June 4 ...
Tagged with: bridge federal lawsuit Outer Banks U.S. District Court
Read More »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 ...
Tagged with: Eastern District of North Carolina federal court Fraud Greenville Medicaid Medicaid Fraud U.S. District Court
Read More »RALEIGH (AP) A federal judge unsealed court documents April 23 that show a North Carolina deputy’s strategy for fighting a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a man fatally shot on his porch in 2015. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle ...
Tagged with: Harnett County Taser U.S. District Court unsealed court documents wrongful death suit
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If an employee commits a negligent act within in the scope of his duties, a vicariously liable company cannot also face claims of negligent hiring, supervision, training or retention, according to a federal judge in the Western District of North ...
Tagged with: Negligence negligent hiring U.S. District Court
Read More »CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The city of Charlottesville has been ordered to halt the enforcement of an ordinance that prohibits panhandling on parts of the city’s Downtown Mall. The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/1zSGfbN) reports a federal judge Thursday ruled the ordinance ...
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A young woman who was 15 years old when she was injured during a JROTC program at Camp Lejeune will not be able to sue the U.S. government, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled. The federal court, weighing in ...
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Read More »CHARLOTTE (AP) — A man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked about 25 Charlotte investors out of more than $2.5 million has pleaded guilty to securities fraud. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said Claude Darrell McDougal, 55, pleaded guilty ...
Tagged with: Guilty Plea Ponzi scheme U.S. District Court
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A former Charlotte school teacher who claimed he was coerced into resigning in 2006 after complaints emerged that he had inappropriately touched students was awarded $1.2 million. A U.S. District Court jury ruled in February that the Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education violated teacher Jeffrey Leardini’s federal due process rights when Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools employee relations specialist Kay Cunningham elicited his involuntary resignation.
Tagged with: U.S. District Court
Read More »Former Tar Heel star Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds last night in the Indiana Pacers’ 121-107 loss to the Denver Nuggets. The Pacers finished their four-game road trip 0-4 last night. If not for their inability ...
Tagged with: U.S. District Court
Read More »A lawsuit brought by a woman who was one of perhaps a half-million people exposed to cancer-causing pollutants and contaminants in drinking and bathwater at Camp Lejeune has withstood a salvo of dismissal motions filed by the government. But now a new motion is pending. The plaintiff, Laura J. Jones of Iowa, lived with her husband, a marine, at Camp Lejeune from 1980 to 1983. In 2003 Jones was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She didn't learn about problems with Camp Lejeune's water supply until 2005.
Tagged with: Camp Lejeune Cancer Pollution subject-matter jurisdiction U.S. District Court
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