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Notices Oct 11, 2017

INVESTOR ALERT: Levi &Amp; Korsinsky, LLP Notifies Shareholders of SCANA Corporation of a Class Action Lawsuit and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of November 28, 2017

The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP: To: All persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired securities of SCANA Corporation (“SCANA”) (NYSE: SCG) between January 19, 2016 and September 22, 2017. You are hereby notified that a securities class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the District of …

Legal News Apr 17, 2017

Justice Deptartment Drops Federal Lawsuit Over North Carolina’s ‘bathroom Bill’

The Justice Department on Friday said it was dropping a federal lawsuit filed last year against North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom bill,” which restricted the public bathrooms transgender people were allowed to use. Officials said that they were abandoning the lawsuit because North Carolina lawmakers last month enacted a law repealing the bathroom bill and replacing it with …

News Mar 6, 2017

The Costs of Some Drugs Have Skyrocketed and These States Won’t Take It Anymore

South Carolina is now one of 40 states to accuse six drug-makers of conspiring to inflate prices and fix the market for two generic drugs used to treat infections and diabetes, in a federal lawsuit. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced Sunday that the Palmetto State backs the claims echoed nationwide that the companies “entered into illegal conspiracies in order to unreasonably restrain …

News Jan 26, 2017

NC Sex Offender Law Goes Too Far

A recently-filed federal lawsuit aims to loosen the restrictions placed on registered sex offenders in North Carolina, claiming the state’s laws go too far, and do little to actually make children safer. The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws filed the federal civil rights action, challenging North Carolina’s sex offender registration requirements. The organization and two unnamed plaintiffs allege that the restrictions placed on sex offenders have expanded continuously over the past decade and are now crippling. North Carolina’s laws restrict …

News Dec 7, 2016

Victim’s Family Files Lawsuit Against Marshall Doran and Parents

Two years to the day Mary Cochran died in a fire at Carolina Beach, her daughter filed a lawsuit against the man who set it. Alice Beth Cochran is suing Marshall Doran and his parents, Peter and Cynthia. In the early morning hours of December 6, 2014, Doran set multiple fires at Carolina Beach.

Lawsuits Nov 4, 2016

US Justice Department Shows Interest in NAACP Lawsuit Challenging NC Voter Roll Purges

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a statement of interest in the NAACP lawsuit challenging elections boards in three North Carolina counties where voters complain they were inaccurately purged from voter rolls. The NAACP went to federal court in Winston-Salem on Wednesday seeking intervention from U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs. In their lawsuit filed Monday, the NAACP and voters from …

News Nov 1, 2016

North Carolina NAACP Files Lawsuit to Reinstate Canceled Voter Registrations

The North Carolina NAACP claims Republicans are trying to suppress the minority vote in the Tar Heel State. So, group is suing the state to stop county election boards from marking voter registrations void. Election officials felt the need to cancel several registrations because mailings to voters’ addresses came back as undeliverable.

Legal News Sep 21, 2016

North Carolina Governor Withdraws ‘Bathroom Bill’ Lawsuit

[JURIST] North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal [text, PDF] on Friday to withdraw a lawsuit in which the state sought a judgment declaring that the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act [text, PDF], also known as House Bill 2 (HB 2), did not violate federal law. HB 2 prevented cities and counties from enacting laws allowing transgender people to use the …

News Sep 19, 2016

McCrory Drops Duplicate HB2 Lawsuit Against Feds :: WRAL.com

Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday dropped one of the state’s lawsuit with the federal government over the legality of House Bill 2, leaving untouched a separate and similar contest in a different judicial district. The now-dropped lawsuit was filed in May by McCrory and Frank Perry, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, in the Eastern District of North Carolina …