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20739
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What predismissal hearing procedures must a government employer follow before firing an employee who has a constitutionally protected property interest in continued employment? In 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court considered this question in Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill. This bulletin discusses the Loudermill decision, examines the NC State Personnel Commission's regulations in implementing the Loudermill decision, surveys lower court decisions interpreting Loudermill, and reviews the requirements of an adequate predismissal hearing.
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20780
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This bulletin reviews North Carolina case law on using mandamus to require enforcement of local ordinances. A Writ of Mandamus, when issued, directs a public officer to perform a specific duty. It exists to relieve the frustration of persons who are entitled to have an officer take a specific action but face a persistent refusal by the officer top do so. The NC Supreme Court identified five elements necessary to a successful mandamus suit.
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20782
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This bulletin analyzes the free public services doctrine that denies recovery against a person or agency that commits a civil wrong, either intentionally or through negligence by a governmental agency that has incurred costs in remedying the public health or public safety hazards caused by the person or agencies' negligence.
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20879
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This article details the currency act of 1764 extending previous bans on paper legal tender to all of the continental colonies, the impact of the act and its role in moving the colonies towards revolution.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 40 Issue 2, April 1963,
p183-199, f
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20895
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This article looks at the creation and content of the periodical \"Our Living and Our Dead.\" Started in New Bern on July 2, 1873, it was founded as a weekly folio containing information of interested to post-war Southerners. An analysis of the content of the periodical over time as well as details of publishers and authors is included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 40 Issue 4, Oct 1963,
p423-433, il, f
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20935
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In this article Fariello explores traditional Cherokee basketry--the skills of the basket maker, the materials, dyeing that must be done before weaving can begin, and weaving. Depending on the material and purpose of the basket, the Cherokee use three types of weaving in the baskets--twilling (rivercane), checker work (white oak), and wicker work (honeysuckle). There are two types of rivercane baskets--single weave and double weave.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Win 2010,
p41-55, il, por, bibl
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21033
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This article looks at the establishment, structure, and function of the magistrates courts in colonial North Carolina. Information on single and multiple justice courts, on laws passed pertaining to magistrates courts, on areas of the courts purview, and of the justices' administrative duties is included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 48 Issue 1, Jan 1971,
p23-30, f
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21059
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This comparative study of the non-ecclesiastical activities of an English and a North Carolina parish tries to determine what activities English parish officials brought to the New World in the 17th- and early 18th-centuries, and if the activities were modified by circumstances specific to colonial America.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p32-51, il
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21061
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This is a reprint of eight letters written by George Washington Whitman, younger brother of Walt Whitman, during the Civil War. The letters describe battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern in February and March of 1862.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p73-92, il, por, f
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21092
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Wealthy planters from the St. James Goose Creek Parish, 20 miles north of Charleston, established a permanent settlement in the Lower Cape Fear in the 1720s and introduced rice as a new agricultural staple in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 4, Oct 1973,
p365-393, il, map
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21111
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This article examines the manifestation of the late 19th and early 20th century resurgence of racism and polarization of society as seen within the Protestant Episcopal Church via Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr.'s active participation in the debate on the role of African Americans within Episcopal hierarchy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1977,
p49-65, il, por
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21147
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This is a reprint of letters written by Washington Wills, a slave to the Wills family of Brinkleyville, North Carolina. The letters were written to Richard Wills in 1864 informing him of the death of his younger brother George Whitaker Wills. The two letters are noted for their emotional and heartfelt content. Biographical information on George, Washington, and the Wills family is also provided.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1977,
p66-71, por, f
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21195
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Rufus Geddie Herring of Roseboro in Sampson County is North Carolina's only Navy Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He received the medal for action during the pre-invasion of Iwo Jima. Ripley's article describes the action and also includes Herring's Medal of Honor Citation, which was signed by President Truman.
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14.The 30th Infantry Division in the Great War by Ripley, Richard M. Recall Vol. 3 Issue 1, May 1997
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21197
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Ripley recounts the organization, training, battles, and demobilization of the 30th Infantry Division in World War I. Components of the Division were drawn from National Guard units, and half of the Division came from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Some units, including the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd NC Infantry Regiments, had just returned home from Federal service on the Mexican Border during 1916-1917. When it came time to choose a nickname for the Division, the Southern soldiers suggested President Andrew Jackson's, and the Division officially was known as the \"Old Hickory Division.\"
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21209
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This article examines the rice growing industry in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia during the 18th- and 19th-centuries. Emphasis is placed on the rice plantations of the Manigault family of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 47 Issue 4, Oct 1970,
p388-415, il, por, f
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