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News Roundup

This week, yet again, America mourns a mass shooting after a young white man attacked the Tops Food Market in Buffalo, New York, killing thirteen people, eleven of them Black, in what appears to be premeditated murder motivated by racism.  Along with the fact, toll, and motivation of the shooting, accomplished as others with a legally purchased assault rifle, is an additional hallmark of our t
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Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (May 17, 2022)

This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on May 17, 2022. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to present.
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Alimony:  the court can order security for the future payment of an award but probably not by life insurance
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Criminal Investigations and Public Records

The Court of Appeals held earlier this month in In re Public Records Request to DHHS, 2022-COA-284, ___ N.C. App.
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Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (April 2022)

This post summarizes published criminal and related decisions released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during April 2022. Decisions that may be of interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly.
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It is time to review the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Uniformity is a defining characteristic of our state’s property tax system.
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Sales Assessment Ratios Plummet

What a difference a decade makes.  In 2012, the country was a couple of years into its recovery from the “Great Recession” and real estate prices across North Carolina were still lagging behind

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Almost half of those are “severely cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 50% of their income on housing.
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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Almost half of those are “severely cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 50% of their income on housing.
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Leave under the FMLA: What Department Heads and Supervisors Need to Know

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employers must grant eligible employees a total of up to twelve workweeks of job-protected, unpaid leave during any twelve-month period for any of the following reasons:
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News Roundup

As the PBS Newshour reports, this week the United States Department of the Interior released the