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December 11, 2015

News Roundup

Shea Denning

My colleagues and I have been busy orienting new district court judges this week, so I haven’t paid much attention to events taking place outside the confines of the Knapp-Sanders […]

December 7, 2015

Mail Regulation in the Jail

Jamie Markham

Handling mail to and from inmates is a challenge for jail administrators. Of course they want to enable inmates to handle their legitimate business (including pending legal matters) and maintain family and […]

December 4, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

Most of the office chatter around the SOG this week concerned the new lawsuit challenging the recently-enacted retention election procedure for North Carolina Supreme Court Justices. The basic question is […]

December 1, 2015

Was Rosa Parks Convicted?

Jeff Welty

Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks was arrested for failing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus to a white passenger. Thinking about her courage, the […]

November 25, 2015

Are Daily Fantasy Sports Gambling?

Jeff Welty

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving means football, and football nowadays means an endless parade of advertisements for DraftKings, FanDuel, and other daily fantasy sports businesses. This post asks the obvious […]

November 20, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

This week, the mighty fell. Locally, Dana Cope, the former director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, pled guilty to spending $570,000 of the Association’s money on personal […]

November 13, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

A divided North Carolina Supreme Court decided State v. Packingham last Friday, upholding the statutory ban on registered sex offenders using social networking websites that allow minors to join. G.S. […]

November 6, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

Superior Court Judge Arnold Jones, the Chair of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, was arrested this week and charged in federal court with bribery and related offenses. WRAL reports […]