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Three Entry Orders over Three Days

  By Andy Delaney No "opinions" this week but there were three published entry orders, one each on the 12th, 13th, and 14th. The big difference between a published entry order and an opinion, to the best of my knowledge, is that the entry order doesn't have a specified author (unpublished entry orders are usually three-justice opinions). This makes me chuckle because it could be used in the I-didn't-write-that! sense as well as the we- all -wrote-it- together sense. Plausible deniability perhaps? Did I digress again? Oops.  First up we have an attorney discipline case. Respondent is a Vermont-licensed attorney who was disbarred in North Carolina in 2015. I didn't notice the 2015 disbarment date when I first glanced at the opinion, err, entry order yesterday. Ten years, huh?   Anywho, the underlying facts are that in North Carolina, between 2009 and 2011, respondent took $21,500 in funds from an estate while he was the estate's administrator by disbursing it t...

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