Criminal Defense

Closing in on two years, the case surrounding the removal of Asheville’s Vance Monument has made its way to the N.C. Supreme Court, and a 36-page appellant brief filed by the plaintiff submits the prior two courts that sided with the city erred in judgements and advocates for a different outcome with the state’s highest …

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Organizers of the recall petition of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell are in court Monday (Feb. 27) asking for an accurate count of the active voters in Orleans Parish. The NoLaToya organizers are arguing that the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters has fallen short on the job, saying the active voter list is off by more …

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The used-car giant had only $434 million cash at the end of 2022 as its debt continued to rise. After a dream start to the stock-market year, Carvana came back to Earth. The online used-car seller’s stock had rebounded spectacularly this year — until the report of fourth-quarter and full-year results on Feb. 23. Carvana’s …

Carvana Doesn’t Say the Word ‘Bankruptcy,’ but Its Situation Is Alarming Read More »

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has instructed his military to be prepared to invade Taiwan in 2027, but the CIA’s belief is that he has “doubts” about whether this is an attainable goal. The United States has to take Xi’s ambitions about reunification with Taiwan, the self-governing island of roughly 23 million people, “very seriously,” CIA Director William Burns warned during a Sunday …

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