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Byline: Teri Saylor A prison inmate who received $100 in compensation for losing the use of 10 law books he alleged were negligently destroyed by a prison official may have [...]

Byline: David Baugher, BridgeTower Media Newswires Farmers in Duplin County and adjacent areas should see an estimated $32 million in federal compensation after the resolution of a court case over [...]

Byline: Bill Cresenzo A perfect storm of calamities has put a standstill to many North Carolina Department of Transportation projects, and that's keeping people whose properties lay in the path [...]

Byline: Bill Cresenzo Landowners whose development rights were frozen under the now-defunct Map Act scored a major victory after the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling largely affirming [...]

Byline: Bill Cresenzo It's been a long and winding road for the North Carolina attorneys representing hundreds of property owners left in limbo after the state reserved their properties for [...]

Byline: Phillip Bantz The North Carolina Department of Transportation has lost another appeal in its increasingly expensive and protracted litigation over the Map Act, a now-defunct law that the agency [...]

Byline: Phillip Bantz   The North Carolina Department of Transportation has lost yet another appeal in the Map Act litigation, which has dragged on for two decades and is costing [...]

Byline: Jeff Jeffrey The North Carolina Court of Appeals, not a three-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court, is the proper venue for constitutional challenges arising out of an [...]

Byline: Jeff Jeffrey Two recent opinions handed down by the North Carolina Court of Appeals mark significant setbacks for four state residents who were seeking compensation for being forcibly sterilized [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor In re Hughes (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-056-16, 22 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) (Chris Dillon, J., dissenting) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: The [...]

Byline: Phillip Bantz Despite a major loss at the North Carolina Court of Appeals and mounting pressure from the legislature to scrap the Map Act, the state Department of Transportation [...]

Byline: Mark McGrath Editor's note: Following is the third installment in a three-part commentary on Woodson v. Rowland and the appellate courts' handling of the Woodson exception. A version of [...]