Carolina Journal Online reports on a court case that could increase a nurse’s legal liability when a patient suffers injuries. A new CJ Opinion explores an important case in the…
Retired Oberlin College Professor Abraham Socher offers Commentary readers a detailed description of a disturbing incident involving the famed liberal school. The jury found that Oberlin College and its dean…
Our Senior Fellow and former secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality asks pointed questions about why hog farmers who complied with regulations are being hauled into court. In an…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling favoring President Donald Trump’s campaign organization in a legal dispute. The 11-page opinion handed…
This week’s decision from the N.C. Court of Appeals means that aggrieved spouses can continue to file lawsuits against the person who cheated with their spouse. JLF’s Jon Guze looks…
The traditional common law torts of alienation of affection (depriving a married person of a spouse’s “love, society, companionship and comfort”) and criminal conversation (engaging in sexual relations with a…
Pigs have many virtues, but smelling good isn’t one of them. If fact, they—or, more accurately, their waste products—smell bad. As a result, pigs have played—and in North Carolina, they…
The Volokh Conspiracy reports that: Yesterday, in what U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg dubbed “the case of devious defecators,” jurors awarded $2.25 million dollars to Jack Lowe and Dennis Reynolds…
View in your browser. In 2008 and 2011 the John Locke Foundation published policy reports on North Carolina’s automobile insurance system. The reports by Eli Lehrer made several findings, including:…
Saw this as a wire service blurb in the local paper of record, but the Charlotte Observer has the details on a tragic case of mistaken identity that resulted in…
Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington reports here on the upcoming trial involving Attorney General Roy Cooper. A defamation lawsuit filed 13 years ago by Gene Boyce and three other Raleigh attorneys…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed this morning a lower-court ruling blocking implementation of a 2012 state law giving the N.C. Bail Agents Association the…