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In March of 2013, Cary attorney Mark Seifert was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. On February 3, 2014, Mr. Seifert entered guilty pleas to nine felony counts of second-degree exploitation of a minor. Judgment was entered subsequently, convicting Mr. Seifert of these offenses. Following the judgment, Mr. Seifert submitted an affidavit surrendering his law license. The presiding Superior Court judge concluded that Seifert’s guilty plea and resulting conviction
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On January 21, 2014, Rosiland T. Grant submitted an affidavit surrendering her law license. In the affidavit, Grant notes a pending investigation into allegations that she misappropriated client funds exceeding $8,000. On January 24, 2014, the Council accepted Grant’s tender of surrendered law license, concluding that Grant did in fact misappropriate entrusted funds in violation of Rule 8.4(c) of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct. View the full disciplinary order below.
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The Campbell Law Observer twice has discussed drones in the past, identifying the privacy concerns of unmanned aircraft and detailing the states’ reactions to drone usage. At the time of those publications, however, the Federal Government and its agencies had not yet provided a set of rules and regulations within which drones would operate in America. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently have published reports describing how both
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More than half of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history have occurred within the past decade. In 2012, Americans were rocked by the news of deadly shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Aurora, Colorado. Tragedies like those that occurred in Newtown and Aurora spark renewed debate about the proper scope of gun restrictions in the United States. The debate over stricter gun regulation is ongoing, as public opinion is split (forty-nine percent of respondents favor more
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law School Professor Matt Sawchak will lead a continuing legal education program (CLE) on unfair-business-practices laws for the Research Triangle Area Chapter of the Association of Corporal Counsel (ACC) on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The program is presented by Ellis & Winters LLP. Matt Sawchak Sawchak teaches civil procedure and antitrust at Campbell Law. His recent scholarship focuses on trade regulation in the states, including the unique and expanding role of
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The Supreme Court of the United States is currently revisiting the issue of co-tenant consent searches, deciding whether a carve-out to the general rule is warranted, or whether previous legal precedent should be abandoned.
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Each time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes faced an especially challenging problem, he called it “a five pipe problem.” By this, Holmes meant that finding a solution was difficult enough to keep him up through the night, enough time for him to fill his pipe with tobacco five times. The legal problems that arose before Sherlock Holmes was added to the public domain in the United States are complicated enough to be dubbed “five pipe problems.” Over 125
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On December 24, 2013, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit affirmed an order authorizing medication to be administered to Simon Dillon “by force if necessary” so that he would be competent to stand trial. By weighing the government’s prosecutorial interests above “special circumstances,” the Court’s opinion examines forcibly medicating a defendant to restore his competency. It is not morally acceptable to punish a defendant who does not understand why he is being punished.
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North Carolina educators are upset about the state of their profession, and they are taking their concerns from classroom to courtroom to get their voices heard.
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In October 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit blocked Judge Shira Scheindlin’s order requiring changes to the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program and removed Judge Scheindlin from the case. In August, after a two-month trial, Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD not only violated the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures, but had also violated the Fourteenth Amendment by resorting to a “policy of indirect racial
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BY: KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Guest Contributor Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published with the CLO. The following article is one of many guest contributions from Campbell Law students to be published over the next two weeks. The advent of
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Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published with the CLO. The following article is one of many guest contributions from Campbell Law students to be published over the next two weeks. Imagine a local software corporation in North Carolina is
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“Serving the citizens of North Carolina in this capacity alongside my colleagues on the N.C. Rules Review Commission continues to be an honor that I cherish dearly.”
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As the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia quickly descend upon aficionados of winter sports, it too has already found its place in Olympic controversies.
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The Innovation Act introduces a number of measures that level the playing field between patent trolls and defendants.
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