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UPDATE: In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States holds that Title VII does not require an employer to have actual knowledge of a potential or current employee’s religious practice.
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SCOTUS to weigh in on Mississippi’s targeted regulations meant to shut down abortion clinics.
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Despite many states’ efforts to place moratoriums on the death penalty, North Carolina lawmakers take a step toward resuming executions for the first time in nine years by passing House Bill 774, dubbed the “Restoring Proper Justice Act.”
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Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, receives the death penalty, but America is still in the dark on where he will wait out the interminable appeals process
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Lawsuits against those involved in writing the Pi Kappa Phi book would likely invoke First Amendment protections.
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View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here In response to several inquiries as whether a lawyer may prepare pleadings or other fillings for a pro se opposing party in a civil proceeding, the State Bar released 2015 FEO 1 at its meeting on April 17, 2015. The Bar notes that this opinion is
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View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here At its October 24, 2014 meeting, the North Carolina State Bar released 2014 FEO 7 that rules a lawyer may provide a foreign entity or individual with a North Carolina subpoena. If a lawyer needs to obtain medical records from an individual out of state
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View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here After receiving inquiries about the responsibilities a partner or supervising lawyer has to a firm lawyer that has mental impairment, the North Carolina State Bar adopted 2013 FEO 8 at its July 25, 2014 meeting. Within this opinion, mental impairment
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On January 23, 2014 the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar met to consider a grievance filed against Ronald E. Cooley by a former client. The Grievance Committee issue a censure after finding that Cooley: (1) failed to attend a deposition in violation of Rule 1.3, (2) failed to
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Joseph L. Carlton, Jr. was disbarred on September 23, 2014. Carlton voluntarily resigned his license to practice law in North Carolina after pleading guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1012—knowingly preparing HUD-1 Settlement Statements that did not accurately show the disbursements in
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On October 31, 2007 Ralph T. Bryant filed an affidavit surrendering his license to practice law with the North Carolina State Bar in which he admitted to misappropriating over sixty thousand in client and fiduciary funds to his own use. As a result, he was disbarred by order on November 6, 2007. On
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On August 15, 2014 William P. Bray received a reprimand from the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar for violations of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct. Bray was retained to represent a client, and during the course of that representation, the Grievance Committee
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