JURIST

JUNE 30, 2021

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced on Monday that Juul Labs Inc., an electronic cigarette giant, will pay $40 million to North Carolina and make changes to its business practices to settle accusations that the company unlawfully marketed and sold products to young people.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a lower court order that would restore voting rights to more than 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony. ” Advocates for the formerly incarcerated are expected to appeal the appellate court’s decision to the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

By Rachel Royal In January 2022, the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center will launch a voluntary Paralegal Pro Bono Reporting process for the first time.

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NCBA

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While most people think of attorneys when they hear about pro bono work, paralegals play an equally important role in providing these services. In North Carolina, pro bono paralegal work not only supports access […] The post The Importance of Pro Bono Paralegal Work first appeared on NCBarBlog.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , the justices will weigh in on an effort by Republican legislators in the state to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law. The court of appeals explained that the state’s attorney general, who is a Democrat, was already adequately defending the voter-ID law. In Berger v.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A North Carolina man convicted in an attorney-fraud scheme has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $22.5 million in restitution to…

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

Before 2019, North Carolina was the only state in the nation to prosecute 16-year-olds as adults, but as “Raise The Age” was implemented in North Carolina, those alleged to commit crimes that are as old as 19 years old can now face trial as juveniles and 16 and 17-year-olds can no longer automatically be charged as adults. .

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The man responsible for a July 1995 pipe-bombing of Business Telecom in North Raleigh, North Carolina, has been resentenced to 450 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release after complex changes to the law that impacted his original mandatory life sentence, the USAO for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced on Monday.

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LegalReader

JUNE 28, 2021

While Juul has not explicitly admitted that it marketed its e-cigarettes to children, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has called the agreement a big win for the state.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2023

A bill currently making its way through the North Carolina General Assembly highlights an ongoing dispute the state’s prosecutors and law enforcement on the process of identifying untrustworthy police officers, Virginia Bridges reports for The News & Observer.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 24, 2022

The campaign organization for North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has obtained an injunction that bars a local district attorney from prosecuting people involved in…

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

AG sues Juul, alleging it could be marketing to children.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

All 50 state attorneys general have come together through the newly formed Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to go after U.S. By potentially coordinating lawsuits, the attorneys general make it more expensive for the robocaller companies, which earlier had calculated the cost of individual court cases into their cost of doing business.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In his lawsuit, Dr. David Phillips--who taught summer courses for high school students at the Governor's School of North Carolina--claims that he was fired after hosting a series of lectures criticizing critical race theory. Attorneys for Phillips note that both students and staff at the school reacted negatively to his lectures.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The ACLU of South Carolina claimed the policy infringes its First Amendment right to receive and publish incarcerated people’s speech. In North Carolina, reporters can interview inmates if the inmate accepts the reporter’s request. Inmates’ ability to interact with the media varies substantially by state.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

One example of such a case is the one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Teva. States leading the negotiations with Teva include California, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Before you decide to file Chapter 13, you may consider researching resources covering North Carolina debt relief and debt management.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., appeared first on Attorney at Work. Utah is in the early stages of a seven-year “regulatory sandbox” pilot program to conduct its own experiment with alternative business structures. have task forces up and running, exploring revisions to Rule 5.4.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2021

A report from the North Carolina Poverty Research Fund at the UNC School of Law provides a powerful explanation of the ways that race and poverty impact teenagers involved in the juvenile justice system. . The imposition of fines and fees in the juvenile justice system is not unique to North Carolina.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 4, 2023

In September 1998, a landscape worker clearing brush near I-85 in Mebane, North Carolina, came upon the skeletal remains of an unidentified child under a…

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LegalReader

APRIL 6, 2022

North Carolina is one of only four states that follows a system of “contributory negligence” – five if you count the District of Columbia.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A small firm in North Carolina used to work half-days on Fridays during the summer months. I hear horror stories from paralegals of getting text messages from their supervising attorneys at all hours of the day and night. During the pandemic, they changed the schedule to half-days on Friday year-round.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will not weigh in on the constitutionality of a North Carolina law that allows employers to sue employees who make undercover video or audio recordings. The denial of review in North Carolina Farm Bureau v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Stein v. 13 conference. 13 conference.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Hobbs’ attorney released three videos capturing the altercation. ” Hobbs is currently in custody in North Carolina. During his time at the facility, officers determined that Hobbs behavior justified him being moved from an isolation cell. During the removal, the altercation in question occurred.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 6, 2022

Similarly, Leigh Daniel is a family law attorney who tripled her gross income by promoting a “positive, peaceful approach to divorce,” according to Forbes. Barbara Fredrickson, a psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina, published a landmark paper on positive thinking. Science of Positivity.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. Justice Alito pressed Harvard attorney Seth Waxman extensively on the evidence that Asian applicants received lower personal ratings in the admissions process than other racial groups. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

Four nonprofit organizations in Western North Carolina–Helpmate, Our Voice, Pisgah Legal Services and the Mediation Center–will not be receiving a combined $2 million in state grant funding over the next two years, impacting the agencies’ abilities to serve more than 4,000 survivors of abuse, reports the Citizen Times.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2024

Attorney General of Arkansas Tim Griffin, whose office represented the Arkansas Board of Apportionment in the case, celebrated the order, writing, “Arkansas’s redistricting process is done by Arkansans elected by their fellow Arkansans. .” The plaintiffs then appealed the district court’s decision.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 30, 2021

A North Carolina district attorney was removed from office Tuesday in a process that began with an affidavit filed by a grassroots group of victims’…

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit on Tuesday, seeking to stop the implementation of the new rule. In addition to New York, the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina and the District of Columbia are also part of the lawsuit.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

o North Coast of California. North Carolina Piedmont area. ? Southeast coastal North Carolina. Unfortunately, stress among paralegal staff is not as well addressed as attorney stress. After practicing as an attorney for many years, she now lives and writes in Florida for Smokeball. o Hawaii/Kauai.

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Mondaq

JUNE 3, 2022

On May 26, 2022, the North Carolina Attorney General (NC AG) announced that it obtained a default judgment against a California-based debt settlement business, and its proprietor.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

TOLEDO, OH—As reports show talent wars are threatening law firms, Shumaker has attracted and hired a dozen new attorneys to join its teams in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

In response Virginia Attorney General Jason S. The court has also agreed to hear a case regarding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Supreme Court will hear this case next term when it hears the case regarding Harvard’s admission policy that harmed Asian American applicants.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance. Because, as the ABA survey made clear, small firm data security is usually handled by the assigned attorney. This is invaluable.

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