Lawyers in North Carolina and South Carolina have been granted administrative reprieves after Hurricane Helene cut across the states. In North Carolina, Chief Justice Paul Newby published an orde...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/02/orders-offer-reprieves-in-wake-of-helene/
By Angela M. Ordoñez, Jennifer Ginsburg and Christopher K. Barry-Smith In a speech to the American Law Institute more than 50 years ago, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger The pos...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/02/judges-courtroom-civility-is-tradition-worth-keeping/
Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the The p...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/02/appeal-delays-600m-settlement-payments-in-fiery-derailment/
Vermont’s Roman Catholic diocese has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal The post...
Where an inmate alleged that prison officials violated his rights by violently pulling a contraband phone out of his rectum in a prison shower, the District Court erred by granting The post 4th ...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/01/4th-circuit-ruling-reinstates-lawsuit-over-search/
Gov. Roy Cooper filled two seats on the District Court bench with appointments announced last week. On Wednesday, he tapped Brad Salmon to serve as District Court judge in Judicial The post Coop...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/01/cooper-names-2-to-district-court-bench/
WASHINGTON — The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed The pos...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/01/fbi-to-pay-22m-to-settle-sexual-discrimination-lawsuit/
ATLANTA — Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week. The The post ...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/10/01/bench-trial-ahead-for-georgia-election-rule-changes-case/
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff More than 650 lawyers cleared a significant hurdle to beginning their law practices — passing the North Carolina Bar Exam. Of the 882 candidates who The pos...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/09/30/bar-exam-candidates-take-essential-step-toward-legal-career/
By Daniel I. Small Most of the crimes we dealt with in the federal Magistrate’s Court in Hyattsville, Maryland, were everyday ordinary crimes, often committed by everyday ordinary people. No T...
https://nclawyersweekly.com/2024/09/30/daniel-i-small-as-a-trial-lawyer-try-to-do-right/