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North Carolina is a Castle Doctrine state and has a “stand your ground” statute. A person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat in any place they have the lawful right to be if they reasonably believe that such force is necessary to prevent immin...
as applied to this case, N.C. Gen. Stat. . 20-138.1 and its associated statutory scheme fail to give fair notice of the acts they prohibit. The United States and North Carolina Constitutions require that the terms of a criminal statute must be sufficiently clear and explicit...
North Carolina law specifies that offenses pertaining to antitrust violations, unfair trade practices, or restraints of trade are the exception; therefore, if you have been charged or convicted of one of these crimes, you can still own or possess a firearm. Further, a person charged or c...
Jason Dockter, left, and his attorney, Lloyd Suhr, meet with others on the steps of the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D., Thursday, May 9, 2024, after Dockter was sentenced to serve 250 hours of community service and pay a $2,...
loses, you pay. If the Board hires uninsured contractors and then has to pay fines for code violations, you pay. If money disappears into a black hole, well, go hire a forensic accountant to PROVE something is amiss before the Attorney General or the local police will bother to investigate...
Charlotte, North Carolina November 19, 1997 Lehman Brothers Inc. Three World Financial Center New York, New York 10285 As Representative of the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto Dear...
"Instead of refunding appropriate amounts of tuition and fees and prepaid funds for meals, the university just elects to retain the money," Abbott added. The trial judge had multiple valid reasons for tossing the case last year, argued Jim Phillips, a private attorney representing ...
North Carolina's statute of limitations lays out maximum time periods that debt collectors can take action against a delinquent debt. These statutes of limitations begin on the date that your debt goes delinquent. For debts taken out in North Carolina, the following are the statutes of limitations...
When irreconcilable legal principles collide, the highest court in the land will have the last word. InChristie v. Hartley Construction, Inc., the Supreme Court of North Carolina had to decide what happens when North Carolina’s six (6) year statutory time limit on claims–or statute of repo...