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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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On January 2, 2013, Mark L. Bibbs was suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year.
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At the time this order was entered, D. Bernard Alston was already on active suspension pursuant to previous Orders of Discipline.
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James Thomas Brown was censured for his role as closing attorney in certain real estate transactions that occurred from 2004 to 2006. In total, there were nine real estate transactions at issue, all of which were purchase transactions. In his role as the closing attorney, however, Brown prepared HUD-1 Settlement Statements falsely indicating that the transactions were refinance loans rather than purchase transactions. Brown prepared and submitted the false HUD-1 statements at the
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Susan Saturno was retained to perform a real estate closing on a residential refinance transaction. As the closing attorney, Saturno represented both the homeowner and the lending institution. Though the lending institution requested that Saturno have the homeowner execute a “Road Maintenance Agreement,” Saturno failed to have the homeowner execute the agreement at the closing. Following the closing, Saturno herself signed the homeowner’s name to the agreement. Ultimately, the
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Edwin M. Hardy was disciplined for various recordkeeping issues pertaining to his client trust account. Specifically, Hardy failed to: conduct monthly and quarterly reconciliations of his attorney trust account; maintain ledgers for each client for whom funds were received in the trust account; accurately record the date of deposit on client ledgers; and provide written accountings to clients with funds in the trust account for more than twelve months. Additional missteps included Hardy’s
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William “Trippe” McKeny was disciplined for various grievances related to his client trust account, many of which involved McKeny’s failure to properly maintain records relating to the trust account. Additionally, McKeny received payments from clients via credit card; these payments were credited directly to the client trust account. The credit card processing fees were debited from the trust account, resulting in entrusted funds being used to satisfy McKeny’s obligations to the
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