North Carolina Lawyers Weekly articles from March 2004

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly archives from March 2004

N.C. Legal Community Obituaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Max L. Childers Max Lamar Childers of Mount Holly died Feb. 17. He was 83. Born in Lenoir, he attained his law degree at the University of North Carolina. He began his law career in Mount...

U.S. District Court Eastern District Case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Search & Seizure - Excessive Force - Tort/Negligence - Battery & False Imprisonment Even though the plaintiff ran away after telling the defendant-officer her name, since...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 1, 2004: Patient settles med-mal claim over endoscopic procedure.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Plaintiff, experiencing post-partum complications including stomach pain, nausea and rectal bleeding, was referred to defendant gastroenterologist, who attempted to...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 1, 2004: Trooper recovers $750,000 for auto accident injuries.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Trooper Joe Hofmann, a 44-year-old Master Trooper with the State Highway Patrol, was seriously injured when a tractor trailer truck driven by James Jones crossed the...

North Carolina Lawyers In the News: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff At Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, seven attorneys have achieved partner status. New Raleigh partners are Jaye E. Bingham, civil defense litigation and appellate practice; J. Gregory Newton, workers'...

U.S. District Court Western District Case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Commercial - Equipment - Perfected Liens - Move to New Mexico - Good Faith Purchasers - Trustee's Recovery - Subject to Liens Even though the debtor moved from North Carolina...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Exemptions - Property - Former Residence - Wildcard Even though the debtor was driven from her Concord house by an abusive spouse, since the spouse left the house several years...

N.C. Court of Appeals Unpublished Case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fees - Contingency - Discharge - New Counsel - Settlement - Suit Against Client Where the defendant-client fired the plaintiff-law firm after it had completed 90 percent of the...

N.C. Business Court Case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Constitutional - Fifth Amendment - Privilege Against Self- Incrimination - Contract - Tort/Negligence - NASCAR Merchandise Where the plaintiff alleges that the other...

Goldsboro attorney to play Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird presentation.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Wayne Community College will present a dramatic presentation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book, To Kill A Mockingbird on March 11 through March 14. Goldsboro attorney Geoff Hulse will...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: March 1, 2004.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Practice Felon in Possession - Juvenile Adjudication In these consolidated cases involving charges of weapon possession as a felon, based on prior juvenile adjudications, the 4th...

U.S. District Court Middle District Case Summaries: March 1, 2005.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fee Award - Civil Rights - Sex Discrimination - Title IX - Duke Football Even though the plaintiff only received $1.00 in compensatory damages, and even though her $2,000,000...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 1, 2004: Bottled gas truck collision results in $1.014M settlement.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Driver of truck carrying bottled gas crashed, bottles overturned, killing two women. Principal injuries (in order of severity): Deaths of two elderly women ...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 1, 2004: Jury awards $205,000 for back strain damages after wreck.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: The plaintiff suffered a chronic back strain as a result of a head-on collision while operating his employer's semi-truck. Principal injuries (in order of severity):...

N.C. Business Court rules invoking the Fifth Amendment not grounds to dismiss business case.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A recent decision from the state's Business Court addresses an issue that has popped up in various civil cases: what happens if a plaintiff invokes the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about the claim? ...

U.S. Western District Judge Thornburg dismisses federal tort claim over faulty park road.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A federal judge has dismissed a tort claim brought by the family of a motorist killed on a road in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The opinion by U.S. Western District Judge Lacy Thornburg shows that a...

Lawyers Mutual, Chief Justice's Comm. on Professionalism sponsor Salisbury program.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff The 19A and 19C judicial districts recently held a judicial district bar professionalism program, sponsored by the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism (CJCP) and Lawyer's Mutual...

N.C. Court of Appeals rules law firm can sue former client to recover contingency fee.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton A Raleigh law firm that was stiffed on its share of a contingency fee could sue a former client to recover it, the Court of Appeals has ruled in an unpublished decision. The ruling means the firm, Michael W....

North Carolina female kicker wins $349K legal fees despite $1 bias award.
March 1, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Even though a female place-kicker who sued Duke for gender discrimination won only $1 in damages, she can collect $349,000 in legal fees, a federal judge has ruled. The holding by U.S. Middle...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial Consumer Protection - Tax Service Advertising - Injunction - Contempt A district court did not err in denying plaintiff tax-preparation service's motion to hold in contempt...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 8, 2004: Patient receives $250,000 on claims ER failed to diagnose.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Medical malpractice Injuries Alleged: Partial left side paralysis as a result of failure to diagnose stroke Name of Case: Confidential Court/County: Cabarrus ...

N.C. Court of Appeals rules for broker in tax exchange condition.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry Even though a broker's exclusive listing agreement said the sale of Dare County beach lots was "subject to" a Sect. 1031 tax free exchange, that didn't mean the broker had to find the replacement property to earn his...

U.S. District Court Western District Case Summaries: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Tort/Negligence FTCA - Wrongful Death - National Park - Blocked Road - Shoulder Collapse - No Duty to Warn Where the plaintiff's decedent was in a car in a national park when the car...

N.C. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Disqualification - Tort/Negligence - Maintenance & Champerty - Conflict of Interest Where there was evidence that the counterclaim-defendant attorney asked a new client to tape...

N.C. Dispute Resolution Commission Case Summaries: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Mediation - Refusal to Change Position - Pretrial Settlement Conference - Required Even though the mediator was informed--via conference call from counsel--that the...

Charlotte attorney raises funds for Jamaican school.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Charlotte attorney Linda Klein is turning 50 next month, but instead of looking for gifts to mark the occasion, she is helping give a huge one to some children in Jamaica. Klein is raising...

Greensboro lawyer and insurance executive Daniel W. Haley dies at 68.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Greensboro lawyer and insurance executive Daniel W. Haley, 68, died March 1. A Guilford County native, he went to undergraduate school at Davidson and got his law degree at the University of...

U.S. District Court Middle District Case Summaries: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Federal Jurisdiction - Zoning - Airport - Inverse Condemnation Claim Where the plaintiffs have not attempted to obtain compensation pursuant to state law condemnation...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 8, 2004: Motorist recovers $2.82M for injuries in head-on collision.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Personal injury Injuries Alleged: Loss of eye, severe skull fractures, multiple pelvic fractures, left fibular fracture, shattered left calcaneus bone Name of Case:...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 8, 2004: Settlement exceeds $550,000 in nursing home resident's death.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Daughter brought claim on behalf of her mother's estate. Her mother was a 70-year-old blind diabetic nursing home resident who was: immobile and unable to speak due to a...

North Carolina Lawyers In the News: March 8, 2004.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Raleigh lawyer Bill Scoggin, a partner and co-chair of Kennedy Covington's governmental relations practice group, has been appointed by Secretary of State Elaine Marshall to the advisory council...

N. C. Court of Appeals rules motorist's delay at stoplight not grounds for traffic stop.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A Greensboro motorist's eight- to ten-second delay in reacting to a green light was not a valid basis for a traffic stop, the Court of Appeals held March 2. The first-impression ruling, which affirms suppression of...

N.C. Appeals Court disqualifies Winston-Salem attorney on allegation of champerty.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A March 2 Appeals Court decision that disqualified a plaintiff's lawyer over conflicts with a defendant sheds light on a seldom-seen common law action -- champerty and maintenance. Case law states those torts are...

N.C. Board of Law Examiners call laptop pilot project a success.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton Bar exam officials say an experimental laptop project was a success and could be opened to all applicants in July. Last December, the state Board of Law Examiners announced a pilot program that allowed 50...

N.C. Supreme Court Justice Orr to retire.
March 8, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Orr announced last week that he will step down from his post this summer. Orr said he will take a position as the executive director and senior counsel for the...

N.C. Supreme Court lets stand ruling brewery not liable for workers' assault.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry The Supreme Court will not review a case that said an Eden brewer wasn't liable when a worker got drunk and shot a man -- even though the company knew he was an alcoholic but gave him free beer anyway. In a second...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Farm Service Agency Debt - Forgiveness - Arbitration Award Even though the arbitration award forgave the debts incurred between 1988 and the end of 1996, and even though one of...

NC Court of Appeals Unpublished Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Motion to Dismiss - Summary Judgment - Banks & Banking - Credit Line Where the plaintiff-bank's verified complaint alleged that both defendants applied for a line of...

N.C. Lawyers in the News: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Senior Deputy Attorney General Reginald L. "Reggie" Watkins, chief proctor of the State Bar examinations, was presented with a resolution of appreciation at the Jan. 16 meeting of the Board of Law...

Commentary: Commercial real estate update.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Have office vacancies hit bottom? It has been a very long time since the U.S. office market showed an increase in occupied space. But the turnaround in employment that began in August, 2003...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 15, 2004: Mother, daughter settle auto accident claims for $1.38M.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Motor vehicle accident Injuries Alleged: Liver laceration, bowel resection and other internal injuries for the older plaintiff and two fractured wrists and a fractured ankle...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 15, 2004: Union wreck plaintiff recovers $487,000 for injuries.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Plaintiff was injured in a head-on collision at 55 m.p.h. Principal injuries (in order of severity): Loss of three pints of blood and loss of consciousness,...

N.C. Bar freezes lawyer's trust accounts over missing closing funds.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry The State Bar has frozen the trust accounts of a Winston-Salem lawyer in a case that could involve the largest misappropriation of client funds in North Carolina history -- at least $2 million, according to one attorney...

U.S. District Court Western District Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Labor & Employment - Corporate - Individual Liability - Plant Closing - WARN - Wage & Hour Act - ERISA Where the individual defendants were intimately involved in the...

N.C. Supreme Court Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Partnership - Contract - General Partner - Management Company - Securities - Investment Firm Where our Court of Appeals held, Where all but one of the claims at issue arose...

North Carolina Lawyers In The News: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Kennedy Lee Thompson recently joined as a partner with his father E.C. (Jene) Thompson III in the Warsaw firm of Thompson & Thompson. Kennedy is a former assistant district attorney for the fourth...

N.C. Court of Appeals rules fired employee couldn't claim non-retaliation under handbook.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry An unpublished Appeals Court decision is a harsh reminder that statements in personnel handbooks never create contract rights for workers, unless the handbook is part of the employment agreement. Citing that rule,...

N.C. Supreme Court denies use of Rule 41 after medmal 120-day extension.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton A plaintiff who received a 120-day extension to file her medical malpractice suit -- but still failed to include a mandatory Rule 9(j) certification -- could not take a voluntary dismissal under Rule 41(a) and later...

North Carolina Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Domestic Relations - Automatic Stay - Child Support - Property Settlement Even though it is not entirely clear that the movant is required to obtain relief from the automatic...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Food Stamp Disqualification - Cash Register Tapes Where a supermarket owner/operator had no explanation for his store's occasional collection of more in food stamp...

U.S. District Court Eastern District Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Rescission - Used Car - Unfair Trade Practices - Election of Remedies - Civil Practice - Voluntary Dismissal - Costs - Tort/Negligence - Fraud Where the plaintiff has...

U.S. District Court Middle District Case Summaries: March 15, 2004.
March 15, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Venue - Intellectual Property - Patent Infringement - Smoke Detectors Where (1) the defendant sells its allegedly infringing products over the Internet and through...

N.C. Appeals Court rules judgment over $10,000 did not bar fees from child, parents.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry Even though a young wreck victim and her parents received $11,200 from a Brunswick County jury, that didn't put them over a $10,000 limit for getting attorney's fees, the Appeals Court held March 16. In a...

Trend: Specialty business courts on the rise.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton The case had all the earmarks of a "legal quagmire," according to one observer. Wachovia and First Union, two North Carolina-based corporations, announced merger plans in April 2001. That sparked an immediate...

N.C. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Attorney Fee Awards - Separate Recoveries - First Impression - Each Recovery Below $10,000 - Sum Of Recoveries Exceeded $10,000 - Even though, when taken together, the two...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 22, 2004: Wreck victim settles back injury, reduced earnings claim.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief statement of claim: Rear-end collision with moderate property damage caused by commercial vehicle and involving several vehicles. Defenses of contributory negligence and sudden emergency...

North Carolina Business Court Commission is looking at expansion.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton North Carolina's Business Court, considered a national model of how a specialty court should operate, could soon see a major expansion of its size and scope. Launched eight years ago, the Business Court has...

Special Superior Court Judge Ben F. Tennille reflects on role of N.C.'s Business Court.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton Special Superior Court Judge Ben F. Tennille has served as North Carolina's sole Business Court judge since the court's inception in 1996. As a former in-house counsel for Burlington Industries, Judge Tennille...

Wake Forest University's School of Law appoints Sidney A. Shapiro as Distinguished Chair in Law.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Wake Forest University's School of Law has appointed Sidney A. Shapiro as the new University Distinguished Chair in Law. Shapiro is a national scholar and expert in administrative law and...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 22, 2004: Balance-impaired patient recovers $540,000.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Medical malpractice Injuries Alleged: Ototoxicity as result of failure to monitor gentamicin levels Name of Case: Confidential Court/County: Lincoln Case No.:...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 22, 2004: Grocery, cellphone records help couple recover $1.02M.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Brief Statement of Claim: Husband and wife on motorcycle were injured by an impaired SUV driver. Principal Injuries (in order of severity): Plaintiffs suffered multiple broken bones of their...

N.C. Court of Appeals waves comp lien vacated on contingent settlement.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A statute that lets Superior Court judges extinguish comp liens on PI settlements couldn't be used where a settlement was contingent on getting the lien waived, the Court of Appeals held March 16. The reason: a...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 22, 2004: Settlement of specific performance claim.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Action for specific performance on land contract Name of case: Confidential Court/County: Confidential Verdict or settlement: Settlement Amount: $1,522,000:...

North Carolina Lawyers In The News: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Asheville lawyer and Buncombe County Commissioner David Gantt was recently presented the Charles Campbell Regional Leadership Award, established in 1983 to honor an outstanding contributor to the...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Excessive Force - Qualified Immunity - Suicide Threat The 4th Circuit denies a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc in this case (Lawyers Weekly No. 03-01-1461) in...

U.S. District Court Eastern District Case Summaries: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Federal Jurisdiction - Abstention - Concurrent State Action - Pro Se Plaintiff - Tort/Negligence - Personal Injury Where (1) the plaintiff's state court complaint is...

U.S. District Court Middle District Case Summaries: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Personal Jurisdiction - Commercial - Contract - California Manufacturer - Shipping Damage Where the California third-party defendant's representative approached the...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: March 22, 2004.
March 22, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Taxation - Ad Valorem - Personal Property - Business Equipment - Value to Estate - Income Generation - Priority Even though the debtor's personal business property was worth...

N.C. Lawyers in the News: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Charlotte lawyer E. Osborne Ayscue Jr. was presented the Mecklenburg Bar Foundation's first Professionalism Award at its 15th Law and Society luncheon March 5, a Bar Foundation press release...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Garnishment Order - Preferential Transfer The order of the district court appealed from is described in Bank of America N.A. (USA) v. Stine, 252 B.R. 902 (D. Md. 2000), and the...

NC Court of Appeals Unpublished Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Taxation - Real Property - Corporate - Attorneys - Pro Se Appearance Where the corporate taxpayer was provided with a rules summary which directed it to the rule requiring...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 29, 2004: Paralyzed patient recovers $500,000 for delayed treatment.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Medical malpractice Injuries Alleged: n/a Name of Case: Confidential Court/County: Cleveland Case No.: Confidential Tried Before: Mediation Name of...

Wendell lawyer Clarence Millard Kirk dies at age 78.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Wendell lawyer Clarence Millard Kirk died March 20 at age 78. A Wake County native, Kirk graduated from law school at Wake Forest in 1957. He practiced law for 47 years, and was the senior...

N.C. Dispute Resolution Commission Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Domestic Relations - Family Financial Mediation - Automatic Stay Where, after a mediator is ordered to conduct a family financial mediation, one of the parties files for...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 29, 2004:Guilford jurors acquit defendant in cab driver's murder.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: First-degree murder Injuries Alleged: n/a Name of Case: State v. Jeyonee Sabir Court/County: Guilford County Case No.: 01 CRS 96874 Tried Before: Jury ...

Federal judge supports bias claim despite lack of firing authority.
March 29, 2004... Byline: Ertel Berry A former Greensboro motel employee can go to trial on claims of job discrimination -- even if the manager who was allegedly biased against her didn't make the ultimate firing decision, a federal judge has ruled. ...

Witness immunity protects psychologist from suit rules N.C. Court of Appeals.
March 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Dayton A Mecklenburg trial judge properly dismissed a malpractice suit against a psychologist whose report squelched a dad's attempt to get custody of his son, the Court of Appeals has ruled. The unpublished decision...

Punitives plaintiff can discover defendant's tax returns rules U.S. Middle District Court.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff A company president who faced possible punitive damages for fraudulent misrepresentation on a contract must turn over his tax returns, a federal judge has ruled. In general, federal courts...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 29, 2004: Jury finds defendant not guilty of murder, armed robbery.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: First-degree murder/robbery with dangerous weapon/ accessory Injuries Alleged: n/a Name of Case: State v. Derrick McMillan Court/County: Guilford County Case...

Verdicts & Settlements-March 29, 2004: Delayed diagnosis results in $200,000 for paralyzed patient.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action: Medical malpractice Injuries Alleged: Stroke Name of Case: Confidential Court/County: Mecklenburg Case No.: Confidential Tried Before: Mediation Name of...

North Carolina Lawyers In The News: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff In recognition of his 30 years of public service, Womble Carlyle attorney and former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Burley Mitchell has received the North Carolina Citizens for Business and...

U.S. District Court Middle District Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Mootness - Municipal - Contract - Procurement System - Real Property - Construction Project Where the plaintiffs' claims for declaratory and injunctive relief all relate...

U.S. District Court Western District Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Disability - ERISA - Fibromyalgia - Evidence - Standard of Review Where all of the plaintiff's treating physicians opined that she was totally disabled, and where the...

N.C. Business Court Case Summaries: March 29, 2004.
March 29, 2004... Byline: North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Contract - Settlement - Release - Comprehensive - Corporate - Officer Even though the plaintiff-creditor alleges that the defendant-debtors misrepresented consumer credit law...