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Proposed Ethics Rules would help Right Wrongful Convictions

February 15th, 2017
Patterson Harkavy attorney Brad Bannon, who is serving his third year as an advisory member on the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Committee, recently revived discussions in the Committee about proposed ethics rules that would require prosecutors to… Read More
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Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Brad Bannon, Ethics, NC State Bar, NC Supreme Court, Wrongful Conviction

Narendra Ghosh appears before the NC Supreme Court, arguing tenure repeal unconstitutional

February 15th, 2016
Patterson Harkavy attorney Narendra Ghosh appeared today before the North Carolina Supreme Court, arguing that the General Assembly’s 2013 repeal of teacher tenure violated teachers’ rights under the North Carolina Constitution and the United Sta… Read More
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Tags: Appeals, Constitutional Law, Narendra Ghosh, NC Supreme Court, NCAE

Narendra Ghosh argues criminal appeal before the Supreme Court of North Carolina

November 17th, 2015
This morning, Patterson Harkavy attorney Narendra Ghosh appeared before the Supreme Court of North Carolina on behalf of his client Kenneth Leak. Narendra argued that Mr. Leak’s conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon was obtained in… Read More
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Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Appeals, Constitutional Law, Criminal Appeals, Fourth Amendment, Narendra Ghosh, NC Supreme Court

Burton argues constitutionality of private school vouchers before North Carolina Supreme Court

February 25th, 2015
Yesterday, Patterson Harkavy attorney Burton Craige appeared before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, arguing that the state’s recently-enacted private school voucher scheme violates the North Carolina Constitution. The voucher scheme uses t… Read More
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Categories: Civil Rights, Uncategorized
Tags: Burton Craige, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education, Narendra Ghosh, NC Constitution, NC Supreme Court, NCAE, Public Schools, Vouchers

Burton and Narendra secure Supreme Court win in medical malpractice discovery dispute

December 19th, 2014
In Hammond v. Saini, __ N.C. ___, 766 S.E.2d 590 (2014), the North Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Patterson Harkavy’s client, Plaintiff Judy Hammond. Ms. Hammond suffered severe injuries from an operating room fire while u… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions, Personal Injury, Results, Uncategorized
Tags: Appeals, Burton Craige, Medical Malpractice, Narendra Ghosh, NC Supreme Court, Negligence, Personal Injuries, Results

Burton and Narendra File Amicus Brief with NC Supreme Court in Defense of the Racial Justice Act

August 12th, 2013
Burton Craige and Narendra Ghosh have submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice in North Carolina v. Marcus Reymond Robinson. The case addresses the first instance of a North Carolina death row inmate having his… Read More
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Categories: Briefs, Civil Rights, News of the Firm, Uncategorized
Tags: amicus brief, Appeals, Briefs, Burton Craige, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Narendra Ghosh, NC Supreme Court, NCAJ, Racial Justice Act

NC Supreme Court Sends Parking Lot Case Back to Commission

February 19th, 2011
The North Carolina Supreme Court has sent a tricky workers’ compensation case back the Industrial Commission for additional fact-finding. Cardwell v. Jenkins Cleaner involves a plaintiff who was injured when she slipped on some black ice three… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions, News of the Firm
Tags: Appeals, Burton Craige, Case Commentary, Compensable Injury, Employer Premises, Industrial Commission, NC Supreme Court, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Workers' Compensation

North Carolina Supreme Court Denies Review in Taylor v. Town of Garner; Win for Plaintiff

November 24th, 2010
The North Carolina Supreme Court denied the defendants’ petition for discretionary review (PDR) in Taylor v. Town of Garner. The Court of Appeals decided earlier this year that Officer Taylor is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits from… Read More
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Categories: Results
Tags: Narendra Ghosh, NC Supreme Court, Police Officers, Results, Valerie Johnson, Workers' Compensation

Latest NC Supreme Court Decisions on Medical Malpractice and Employment Law

April 29th, 2010
The North Carolina Supreme Court issued its latest round of decisions on April 15. Two cases are worthy of note. In the first, Brown v. Kindred Nursing Centers East, the 4-3 majority ruled that a plaintiff’s medical malpracitce complaint had to… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: Case Commentary, Justice Hudson, Labor and Employment, Medical Malpractice, NC Supreme Court, Personal Injuries, Rule 9(j), UDTP

NC Supreme Court Approves Industrial Commission's Transition Process

March 16th, 2010
On Friday, in Baxter v. Danny Nicholson, Inc., the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld an Industrial Commission decision that defendants had attacked on the grounds that one of the Commissioners was not authorized to exercise his powers on the day of… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: Case Commentary, Constitutional Law, Industrial Commission, NC Constitution, NC Court of Appeals, NC Supreme Court, Workers' Compensation
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