JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2024

In anticipation of the 2024 elections, many states are litigating and changing voting rules. Additionally, two prominent voting rights advocacy groups sued Republican state leadership in North Carolina over the state’s redistricting plans.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2022

Abigail Fisher and Edward Blum, who were essential in the Fisher litigation, are now directors of the SFFA. The district court found that “the plaintiffs in this case and the Fisher litigation are in privity and the causes of action in the two cases are the same.” University of Texas.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 21, 2022

Arts school has rampant history of abuse, according to accusers.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 26, 2022

of North Carolina is representing the inmate, who is asking a court to order the North Carolina Department of Public Safety to allow her access to hormones and so-called "gender-affirming surgery.". The A.C.L.U.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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LegalReader

APRIL 14, 2022

The city of Asheville, North Carolina recently agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit with a former employee.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Harper stems from a challenge to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative redistricting plan as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 31, 2023

A North Carolina lawyer told a disciplinary commission that she thought that substituting a litigant for her criminal client during an arraignment was “an acceptable…

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2024

In late 2023, t he Georgia Republican Legislature Leadership released its controversial new redistricting maps in the midst of ongoing section two litigation. The ruling comes as racial gerrymandering rulings and controversies have proliferated ahead of the upcoming presidential primaries and the 2024 general election in November.

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LPB Network

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which presents the following questions: Whether a state agent authorized by state law to defend the State’s interest in litigation must overcome a. This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Berger v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is not the only recent litigation involving electoral maps in the lead-up to the 2024 elections. On Tuesday, t wo prominent voting rights advocacy groups sued Republican state leadership in North Carolina over the state’s Congressional redistricting plans.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In that case, the court found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) admissions processes did not pass strict scrutiny. Since the court’s June 2023 ruling, there has been litigation over the US Military Academy at West Point’s admissions policy for similar reasons.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 23, 2021

A North Carolina bankruptcy judge declined to block talc suits against Johnson & Johnson on Friday, saying that he would consider extending the Chapter 11 stay of litigation to the healthcare giant at a hearing set for early November.

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LegalReader

MARCH 14, 2021

Two female firefighters in North Carolina are suing over allegations of discrimination and harassment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP has added a litigator from Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in its Charlotte, North Carolina, office, with the firm touting the attorney's hire as part of its growth plans in the city.

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LawSites

MAY 17, 2021

former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where her research focuses on legal pedagogy, the use of technology in legal education, and law and technology. And what topics should such teaching cover?

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to allow the policy to remain in place while litigation is still going on to finish reviewing applications, to which the Court agreed. The court has also agreed to hear a case regarding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school board asked The U.S.

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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. The task force will be led by N orth Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein , Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A. I did not, but this case prompted me to write one! A new company is formed, Company B, a Texas LLC.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When the insurance adjuster looks into your case, they will be searching for any pretext to minimize the value of your case or deny it altogether.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? The North Carolina Judicial Branch links a good number of Help Topics directly from their home page. We share what we found below. There is a lot of information there.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases, this sets up an almost Kafka-esque scene in courtrooms across the country,” they wrote. Right off the bat, this sets up litigants for an uphill struggle, the researchers explain. North Carolina Justice.

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LawSites

JULY 8, 2021

Oscar Draughn , a fellow from Florida Agricultural And Mechanical University College of Law, who received a fellowship to create a database of pro se litigant resources in Florida via a digital app with step-by-step tutorials. .

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2022

A new blog devoted to transnational litigation — Transnational Litigation Blog, or TLB — is now officially up and running. The primary focus of TLB is on transnational litigation in U.S. courts (both state and federal). A link to the blog can be found here.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Prepare yourself for a tough battle because large trucking companies can afford very good lawyers. If you go alone, you don’t stand a chance.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The EEOC will attempt a negotiation between you and your employer. A seasoned lawyer can help you win damages for all your humiliation and suffering. .

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

RealPage has asked a North Carolina federal court to transfer the government's antitrust case against it to Tennessee, where private litigation has been playing out over claims the software company helps residential landlords fix rental prices.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Enforcers urged a North Carolina federal court not to transfer the government's antitrust case against RealPage to the Tennessee court overseeing similar private cases, saying Congress has made it clear that public antitrust actions should not be roped into multidistrict litigation.

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Law 360

JUNE 18, 2024

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday gave the final seal of approval to a proposed $6.7 million deal resolving litigation alleging Novant Health Inc. shared sensitive patient data with Facebook, certifying a nationwide settlement class of roughly 1.3 million individuals.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The chief executive of a North Carolina airgun company left in shambles over allegations of gross mismanagement has agreed to fork over $950,000 by selling two residences as part of a settlement ending the contentious yearlong litigation brought by his Swedish partner.

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Law 360

AUGUST 21, 2024

Wells Fargo has beefed up its legal representation with a powerhouse appellate litigator and an employer-side labor lawyer, both from Jones Day, following a jury's decision last month to enter more than $22 million in damages against it in a former director's disability discrimination case in North Carolina federal court.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In an unsigned order, the justices turned down a request from the same group that spearheaded challenges to the use of affirmative action in admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and which now argues that West Point’s use of race violates the Constitution. Army and almost half of the country’s four-star generals.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lenovo and Motorola Mobility fired back against Ericsson with a countersuit in an underlying infringement action in North Carolina federal court, arguing the Swedish company is refusing to honor its licensing obligations for its 5G patents and engaging in global litigation to demand excessive royalties.

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