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May 20, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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May 11, 2012 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - The lawyer for a New Bern man accused of hiding private flight donations to Gov. Beverly Perdue's 2008 campaign says his client provided all the information campaign officials asked of him and questions how he could have done anything differently.Attorney David Rudolf told a Wake County judge Friday that it was the responsibility of the Perdue campaign to report the donations.

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December 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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December 15, 2011 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - North Carolina's governor on Wednesday halted a Republican effort to dismantle a law that gives death row inmates a new way to argue that racial bias influenced their sentences.Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed a bill that would have essentially repealed 2009's Racial Justice Act, which was designed to address concerns that race has played a recurring role in who is sentenced to death.

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April 08, 2007 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - In a debate rarely seen at the Legislature, senators - both black and white - talked about their experiences with racism and intolerance.Sen. Tony Foriest spoke of how, as a child, his family planned their vacation stops based on where they would be permitted to stay for the night. Sen.

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August 13, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

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July 25, 2007 | Law.com

MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site -- more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states said Tuesday. After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.

By Gary D. Robertson

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March 30, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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March 31, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

North Carolina's highest court has quietly rejected proposed rules for the state's lawyers that urged attorneys not to discriminate against potential clients who are gay.

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May 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

Both the North Carolina Medical Society and the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers are supporting a bill, approved in the House by a wide margin Monday night, that caps monetary damages in negligence cases at $1 million, but only for those who agree to go to binding arbitration. The agreement is a marked change from previous years, when physicians have blamed rising malpractice insurance premiums on multimillion-dollar awards by runaway juries.

By Gary D. Robertson

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