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Apr 01

Looting or Trespass During an Emergency in North Carolina

North Carolina prohibits looting - N.C.G.S. 14-288.6 - which is either punishable as a misdemeanor or felony. It's a misdemeanor for "any person [to] enter[] upon the premises of another without legal justification when the usual security of property is not effective due to the occurrence or aftermath of riot, insurrection, invasion, storm, fire, explosion,...

Mar 25

Can a County Bar Entry?

With the COVID-19 / Coronavirus coming to North Carolina, the state and local governments are preparing to respond with measures designed to slow the spread of the disease and "flatten the curve." These measures include travel restrictions, stay-at-home advisories, and even restrictions on who can and cannot enter a particular county or city. Dare County...

Nov 26

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Nov 02

The Perils of RICO

Following decades of battling organized crime - principally, in the American imagination, the Italian mob - Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. American law enforcement had been frustrated for years. The law generally punished the discrete criminal acts - robbery or extortion...

Sep 01

Rape: A Lawyer who Defends Against False Accusations

The #MeToo movement has been a welcome corrective to a society that for too long has ignored substantiated accusations of sexual misconduct. Whether in the workplace or in the personal realm, sexual assault - including harassment, abuse, battery, and rape - should never be tolerated. But, at the same time, in our rush to correct...

Sep 01

SafeSport Issues Lifetime Ban

SafeSport issued a lifetime ban barring a once-celebrated U.S. figure skating coach from participating in the sport. The ruling came twenty years after the coach's governing body, U.S. Figure Skating, refused to act to the allegations because, under the national governing body's rules, the allegations had not been filed in a timely fashion. The allegations...

Aug 25

SafeSport Lawyer Responds to Lawsuit

Headquartered in Colorado, SafeSport is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on investigating and stopping emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in various sports organizations. Authorized in 2017 by the Safe Sport Authorization Act, SafeSport "exercise[s] jurisdiction over the corporation, each national governing body, and each paralympic sports organization with regard to safeguarding amateur athletes against abuse, including...

Jul 09

Dismissal of All Claims, Contract Dispute

When our client sold his refurbished Cessna T210 to a buyer from Nevada for $175,000, the buyer was thrilled, describing the plane the buyer had flown back to Reno in glowing terms. But over time the buyer became dissatisfied with the aircraft, and located a Nevada lawyer to pursue legal action against our client, a...

Jun 23

Joe Biden: The New Jim Crow

Joe Biden may be the worst Democrat to run for political office in the past half-century. Uncle Joe likes to preen about his working-class roots and personal frugality (a hardscrabble Scranton upbringing, a Senator who took Amtrak back-and-forth to Delaware), but, since the very beginning of his time in the U.S. Senate, has been a...

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