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A former political consultant charged alongside embattled insurance mogul Greg Lindberg wants their criminal retrial on wire fraud and bribery charges severed, telling a federal court that Lindberg's potential plan to throw him under the bus will destroy any defenses against the government's accusations.
A former doctor at the University of North Carolina hospital wants the state's highest court to revive his defamation lawsuit alleging a supervisor's ill will motivated an investigation into a supposed bawdy party, telling the justices that the supervisor isn't afforded the immunity public officials receive from lawsuits.
The Fourth Circuit seemed poised Thursday to let down Black voters in their bid to erase election maps they claim are unfairly drawn to dilute their voting power in North Carolina's "Black Belt," with the majority of a panel suggesting that redrawing maps shortly ahead of primaries would cause chaos.
An insurance company alleged in a federal complaint Tuesday that three former executives lined their own pockets by breaking laws and stealing assets in a plot to found their own competing business as part of a vindictive campaign fraught with subterfuge on North Carolina regulators to further imperil their former employer.
Oil industry titans pushed the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday to remove to district court a lawsuit brought in a state venue by local Maryland governments that alleges the companies lied about fossil fuels' effects on the climate to promote sales, arguing the claims encompass actions taken at the direction of the federal government.