Chief Justice Paul Newby has designated Judge Adam Conrad to serve as Chief Judge of the North Carolina Business Court, effective August 1, 2026. The announcement can be found here. Judge Conrad’s elevation comes at a transition point for the Court, which will see current Chief Judge Michael Robinson…
Continue Reading Adam Conrad Designated as Chief Judge of North Carolina Business CourtComplex Family Financial Cases Get the “Specialty Court” Treatment in Newly Adopted North Carolina Budget
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed budget legislation yesterday that resolved a long-standing stand-off between…
Continue Reading Complex Family Financial Cases Get the “Specialty Court” Treatment in Newly Adopted North Carolina BudgetThree managers of two LLCs found themselves up a creek without operating agreements. They couldn’t…
Continue Reading Three’s a Crowd: More LLC Managers, Less ClarityNC Business Court Relies on Political Question Doctrine in Dismissing Climate Change Lawsuit
The Town of Carrboro is a small place with big legal ambitions about combatting climate…
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This lawsuit involves breach of a confidential settlement agreement. In motion briefing, both sides relied on and filed the subject agreement. Both sides also filed (unopposed) motions to seal it. …
Continue Reading No rubber stamps here. Judge Conrad denies a motion to seal.19th Nervous Breakdown: on the Wrong Side of a Contractual Deadline, You Can’t Always Get What You Want
“[T]ime waits for no one,” sage Rolling Stones advice from 1974, doesn’t appear in Black’s Law Dictionary or result in frequent opinion cites for Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, the…
Continue Reading 19th Nervous Breakdown: on the Wrong Side of a Contractual Deadline, You Can’t Always Get What You WantBy Jeff MacHarg and Camryn Rohr.
Judge Conrad’s Final Judgment in Airtron, Inc. v. Bradley Allen Heinrich ends this years-long Chapter 75, trade secret case. No doubt, the plaintiff (Airtron)…
Continue Reading No lawyer, no problem. Justice will still be served.Business Court Gives Maggie Valley’s Ghost Town in the Sky More Time to Scare up Some Investors
A member seeking to dissolve an LLC which owns a mothballed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, didn’t have a “ghost of a chance” to close out a struggling…
Continue Reading Business Court Gives Maggie Valley’s Ghost Town in the Sky More Time to Scare up Some InvestorsCharlotte’s Contracts to Build Transit System are Inseparable Part of Government Function to Provide Service to Public
The City of Charlotte’s Gold Line Streetcar extension, that brought the system to a 4-mile, 17-stop line, opened to the public in August 2021. But disputes about its construction (and…
Continue Reading Charlotte’s Contracts to Build Transit System are Inseparable Part of Government Function to Provide Service to PublicWhen discovery goes so off the rails that a court declares a party “has stalled the progress” of a case, prejudiced its opponent and “wasted judicial resources,” there’s little doubt…
Continue Reading When Discovery Goes Off Track, can a Pro Se Party Right the Course?Check your Receipts at Summary Judgment: Court Awards Attorney’s Fees Against Party that Pressed on with “Meritless” Claim After Close of Discovery
After a “hotly contested” four-year litigation that resulted in mutual, without prejudice dismissals, the plaintiff in Vitaform, Inc. v. Aeroflow, Inc., 2023 NCBC 76, said it would refile…
Continue Reading Check your Receipts at Summary Judgment: Court Awards Attorney’s Fees Against Party that Pressed on with “Meritless” Claim After Close of DiscoveryA Bitter Dish in the Dessert Industry: Company Pays Litigation Expenses for a Corporate Officer who Won Dismissal of Its Misappropriation Claims
PreGel America makes and distributes products used in the gelato, ice cream and pastry business. But it alleges a far less than sweet experience with its former CEO, who the…
Continue Reading A Bitter Dish in the Dessert Industry: Company Pays Litigation Expenses for a Corporate Officer who Won Dismissal of Its Misappropriation ClaimsA Publicly Filed Court Document Does Make a Sound, Even if No One is Around to Hear It
When an amended complaint renders the arguments of a motion to dismiss moot, what effect does it have on the public’s ability to view the parties’ filings on the motion?
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