North Carolina's amended Natural Death Act and the recently enacted Health Care Power of Attorney Act assist those citizens who want to make their health care wishes known should they no longer be able to communicate them.
Most states have moved toward statutory bans on corporal punishment or allowing local education boards to prohibit the practice in their areas. At one time North Carolina was the only state that did not ban or allow the local boards to prohibit corporal punishment; however, a new amendment will change this.
Fountain discusses past judicial treatment of recovery of attorneys' fees and identifies statutory exceptions to the general rule prohibiting recovery.
Hahn discusses what constitutes second degree rape in North Carolina. Constructive force, one of the elements of second degree rape, is defined as that force that causes a woman to submit due to her fear of the attacker, duress, or mental coercion.
North Carolina's usury statutes are designed in part to protect borrowers from unscrupulous lenders' exorbitant penalty fees. A recent court decision, though, has lessened the force of these usury statutes.
The \"Channel One\" decision held that local, not state, school boards had the right to control selection and procurement of instructional materials such as \"Channel One.\"
Kenan Professor of Law John V. Orth edits a transcript of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1868 on the day delegates decided voters should have the right to elect their judges.
Associate Justice of the NC Supreme Court Harry C. Martin advances the argument that state courts should champion the protection of constitutional rights in the wake of the federal courts' full-scale retreat from the battleground.