4th Circuit upholds six-year sentence in NC healthcare fraud case
The 4th US Circuit of Appeals has upheld a conviction and six-year prison sentence for a man convicted of taking part in a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud in North Carolina.
A special master has finalized his recommendation that former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg pay more than $1.6 billion in restitution in connection with his guilty plea in an insurance fraud case.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a federal judge’s contempt order against a North Carolina lawyer involved in a multinational intellectual property dispute. Pressly Millen often represents Democrats in court.
A federal lawsuit at the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals claims North Carolina’s foster care system “is in crisis.” Plaintiffs hope appellate judges will revive complaints a trial judge dismissed last fall.
Environmental groups are asking a federal judge to clarify that an earlier order protecting endangered bat habitat in western North Carolina forests throws out the federal government’s forest management plan.
A federal judge has denied plaintiffs’ request to reconsider a September order dismissing a lawsuit challenging conditions in North Carolina’s foster care system.
Former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg could pay $1.6 billion in restitution in connection with his guilty plea in an insurance fraud case, according to a court document filed Friday.
An expelled University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student will be able to take his case against the university and campus officials to a federal jury trial in May.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging conditions in North Carolina’s foster care system. The decision Thursday indicated that eight adults who filed suit on behalf of 13 children did not have close enough relationships with the children to represent them in court.
North Carolina's Republican senators praised Trump's picks, and play a key role in shepherding them through the confirmation process.
A split federal Appeals Court panel has reversed a lower court ruling involving Asheville city government's noise limits near a Planned Parenthood site. The 2-1 decision Wednesday favors the city over an abortion critic who won at the trial court.
A federal Appeals Court is giving a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer another chance to seek immunity from a lawsuit based on her mistaken shooting of an FBI officer in 2019. The court decided Wednesday to send the case back to a trial judge.