It was a classic American success story. Hai Nguyen and his wife, Oanh Le, had escaped communist Vietnam in a boat under the cover of darkness and found work in the textile mills outside Charlotte. Through years of hard labor and frugal living, they saved enough money to buy a small house and a nail salon business, all while raising five children. But their lives took a Kafkaesque turn in 2007, when the federal government arrived with questions about a series of cash deposits that the couple had made at several banks near their Cherryville home.
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As director and general counsel of the N.C. Real Estate Commission’s legal department, Thomas Miller spent 30 years going after unscrupulous agents and was the man behind controversial laws and rules that have shaped the state’s real-estate industry. Miller retired on March 1 after hitting the three-decade employment mark.
The N.C. Bar Association’s first peer review of lawyers seeking seats on the bench is buoying the confidence of some contenders but has already sunk at least one judge hopeful’s campaign. The survey of 83 non-incumbent candidates vying for judgeships in District Court and Superior Court was made public April 18. Luther B. Culpepper IV, pictured, came out with best overall rating of lawyers vying for District Court judgeships.
Just a year after Florida passed the nation’s first “Stand Your Ground” law in 2005, South Carolina enacted its own expanded self-defense statute. And now in both states a shooting death has focused fresh attention on the law – and calls for its repeal.
Florence County’s treasurer violated South Carolina’s constitution, state law and county ordinances when he granted pay raises in his department without county council approval and then used the county’s money to pay an attorney to sue the county, according to a circuit judge’s order. That ruling is part of the latest development in a longstanding tug-of-war between the Florence County council and county treasurer Dean Fowler.
The down economy has sparked a number of new investment opportunities, particularly for individuals with the good fortune of being flush with cash and having the ability to get creative without having to convince a lender that a deal is viable. One such investment that has become more prevalent since the recession is the purchase of non-performing loans.
Of the 55 words in North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment on marriage, three carry much potential for confusion: “domestic legal union.” As family law attorneys ponder how the amendment, if approved on May 8, would affect practice in areas like domestic violence, child custody and end-of-life decisions, they tend to focus on that phrase.
The National Labor Relations Board’s Region 11 office in Winston-Salem, which serves North Carolina, South Carolina and parts of Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, is one step closer to consolidating with the Region 10 office in Atlanta, the board announced earlier this month. Beginning May 1, both regions will begin reporting to a single director in Atlanta, Claude T. “Chip” Harrell Jr., who has been serving as the acting regional director in both regions since January.
Three couples who live near the Lee County Landfill in Bishopville won a $2.32 million verdict in federal court last month against the landfill and its owner, Republic Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest waste management companies. Gary Pollakoff, representing the plaintiffs, pictured.
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