NEWS FROM 2011

BSF partner Daniel T. Blue, III (Dan) was appointed to the Board of Directors for DHIC, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods and families in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its opinion today in U.S. v. Kerr, No. 10-4557, vacating a 268 month sentence that was imposed after a jury convicted the defendant on one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(e). Mr. Kerr was represented on appeal by Dhamian Blue and Jenna Turner Blue of Blue Stephens & Fellers LLP.

A federal judge in the Western District of North Carolina has approved a wrongful death settlement that will compensate the minor child of a mentally ill man who killed himself while he was confined in the Burke-Catawba District Confinement Facility, located in Morganton, North Carolina.

Blue Stephens & Fellers LLP is investigating consumer complaints about the battery function of the Worx GT 18 Volt Grass Trimmer and Edger (including model WG151.1).

North Carolina Court of Appeals today found that the Wake County School Board violated the state Open Meetings Act by intentionally excluding the public from meetings about the county’s diversity policy last year.