August 14, 2020
Campus workers in the University of North Carolina system have filed a lawsuit saying working conditions are unsafe and that workers are reporting for work with inadequate protective equipment amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Some university employees, including housekeepers and other …
September 26, 2019
A federal judge is closing a lawsuit that Duke University is settling over claims that it and nearby University of North Carolina conspired to hold down salaries of thousands of medical workers by not hiring staff away from each other. …
June 7, 2019
Duke University is agreeing to pay $54.5 million to settle claims that it and nearby University of North Carolina conspired to hold down salaries of medical professors by agreeing not to hire staff away from each other. Lawyers for the …
May 9, 2018
A North Carolina party bus owner was cited for insurance and license plate problems after a college student fell out of the vehicle last week and died when she was hit by two cars. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced Monday …
October 4, 2017
Attorneys for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and athletes who played for the school argued in a state court on Friday whether a lawsuit filed against the school in connection with an academic scandal should be dismissed. …
April 20, 2017
A North Carolina appeals court won’t revive a lawsuit by two former athletes who say they were harmed by sham classes at the University of North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Charlotte-area judge properly …
August 15, 2016
A federal judge has granted the NCAA’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two former North Carolina athletes seeking to hold college sports’ governing body at least partly responsible for the school’s long-running academic fraud scandal. In a ruling …
July 7, 2016
The University of North Carolina has reached a settlement after a college football player said he suffered a concussion during an off-campus hazing incident. Citing a copy of the settlement it obtained June 21, the News & Observer of Raleigh …
April 22, 2016
An attorney representing two ex-North Carolina athletes says the school and NCAA are both responsible for UNC’s long-running academic fraud scandal that he says denied athletes a quality education. Michael Hausfeld said April 19 in a hearing in federal court …
February 23, 2016
A North Carolina judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday in which two former University of North Carolina athletes alleged the school failed to provide them and other athletes a quality education by directing them toward sham classes. Mecklenburg County Superior Court …