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	<description>William W. Plyler, N.C. Attorney</description>
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		<title>Mother-In-Law 1, Daughter-In-Law 0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion decided yesterday, affirmed the 2006 firing of a social worker who violated the Wilson County Department of Social Services anti-nepotism policy.  The policy prohibited “two members of an immediate family” from working for the agency, and defined “immediate family” to include a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=512</link>
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		<title>Roger Smith and The &#8220;Virgin Islands&#8221; by Robert McMillan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once when Roger Smith was a young and struggling lawyer &#8212; he is now the best criminal appellate lawyer that I have known &#8212; I had him talk to some clients of mine.  Some of these people had received injuries in a bus wreck.  Roger came to my office and went into the inner room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=510</link>
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		<title>All Hail The News And Observer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every citizen of North Carolina should thank the Lord for The News and Observer.  It provides the only remaining check on corrupt and/or inept politicians and bureaucrats.  The “news” shoveled on the airwaves by local television stations is a joke.  Local television reports exclusively on crime, criminal trials, the weather, sports, and for your bedtime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=505</link>
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		<title>Mixed Breed Rottweiler Gets Free Bite At Mail Carrier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owners of Rottweilers are deemed to know the dangerous propensities of the Rottweiler breed.  Consequently, Rottweilers do not get the benefit of the one-free-bite rule which other dogs enjoy.  See, Hill v. Williams, 144 N.C. App. 45, 547 S.E. 2d 472 (2001).
Yesterday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, in Harris v. Barefoot, (COA09-1313, filed August [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=503</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Simms &amp; Simms&#8221; by Robert McMillan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Robert McMillan, senior partner with McMillan Smith &#38; Plyler, has practiced law in Raleigh, N.C. for over 50 years.  He graciously has allowed me to publish some of his favorite law stories, one of which appears below.)
This anecdote involves the story told about the time that N.F. Ransdell, uncle of Buck and Phillip Ransdell, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=501</link>
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		<title>The Policy Giveth And The Policy Taketh Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Haywood County Deputy Sheriffs who allegedly injured the plaintiff by jerking his arms behind him and slamming him into a wall are entitled to summary judgment, resulting in the dismissal of the claims against them.  This was the holding of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Owen v. Haywood County, et al, (COA09-929, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=499</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Bill Gerald&#8217;s Paralegal&#8221; by Robert McMillan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Robert McMillan, senior partner with McMillan Smith &#38; Plyler, has practiced law in Raleigh, N.C. for over 50 years.  He graciously has allowed me to publish some of his favorite law stories, one of which appears below.)
Judge Mike Payne of the Wake County District Court had become displeased with the cavalier and slipshod fashion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=497</link>
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		<title>Doctor&#8217;s Equivocation Costs Plaintiff $1.4 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order for a plaintiff to recover damages for permanent injury in a bodily injury case, a doctor must testify that the injury is permanent.  This is the take-away from yesterday’s North Carolina Court of Appeals decision in Littleton v. Willis, (No. COA09-732, filed July 6, 2010). 
In Littleton, the plaintiff’s vehicle was hit head-on by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=494</link>
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		<title>NCBA President-Elect Martin H. Brinkley Speaks At Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin H. Brinkley, the new President-Elect of the North Carolina Bar Association, gave an excellant acceptance speech on June 26, 2010 at the Bar Convention in Wilmington.  Mr. Brinkley consented to the publication of the text of the speech on this site.  The speech, in its entirety, follows.
The grace our family usually says at mealtimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=492</link>
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		<title>Shock Jock Doc Gets Rocked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The male physician-owner of a Hickory, NC medical clinic recently showed some gall in defending a sexual harassment lawsuit brought on behalf of a female physician at the clinic.  He argued that he was a boorish jerk to everyone, women and men alike, and that his consistently vulgar comments were not directed exclusively to women.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nclawandpolicy.com/?p=490</link>
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