In a dispute among the members of a dissolved soccer gear company, the Business Court flashed a “red card” on litigants who professed full compliance with discovery requests but missed that goal by at least several hundred documents. Kixsports, LLC v. Ryan Munn, et al., 2019
Business Court examines personal jurisdiction over restoration company CEOHurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on September 14, 2018, and its slow-moving chaos brought more than 30 inches of rain to some localities along with fierce winds. It left in its wake an estimated $24 billion in damages, and a multi-state
Here at the blog, we love a well-crafted set of local rules as much as the next lawyer. (Yes, we hear you laughing; we’re the folks who recap decisions about business law instead of episodes of Watchmen or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We enjoy them a lot more than the next, more normal, lawyer.)
The Business Court addressed the appropriate bounds for expert testimony proposed to establish damages, and perhaps to provide editorial guideposts for the jury, in W. Avalon Potts v. KEL, LLC, et al, 2019 NCBC 60, 2019 WL 4744646 (N.C. Super. Ct. September 27, 2019). See Order and Opinion. We discussed the case in
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!
-Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, shoe sage.
The N.C. Business Court might not be your first stop for tips on picking quality footwear, but in the spiritual homestead of Air Jordans, solid
The Business Court sorted through the drama of an affiliated outsider who wanted to buy a company, settled for half and became an insider, and then allegedly used that perch to benefit himself and his family in W. Avalon Potts v. KEL, LLC, et al, 2019 NCBC 29, 2019 WL 2058599 (N.C. Super. Ct.
Sometimes when seeking a trail of breadcrumbs to help unwind a twisty problem, one finds the whole loaf, instead. So it was for the N.C. Business Court in granting a preliminary injunction on a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets in Biesse America, Inc. v. Dominici, 2019 NCBC 50 (N.C. Super. Ct. Aug. 19,
The Business Court tentatively waded back into its well-settled case law that tends to scold litigants who try to convert internal company disputes into unfair trade practice claims in Constr. Managers, Inc. v. Amory, 2019 NCBC 31, 2019 WL 2167311 (N.C. Super. Ct. May 17, 2019). In doing so, the Court denied much of
In a series of recent opinions in Justice v. Mission Hospital, Inc., the Business Court dismissed claims that MedPay benefits were improperly routed to a treating hospital, dismissed the appeal of the dismissal, and dismissed the appeal of the dismissal of the appeal. First, the Court dismissed a purported class action on behalf of
The N.C. Business Court has issued three rulings this summer on the pleadings in Willard v. Barger, 19 CvS 182 (Davie County). See 2019 NCBC 42; 2019 NCBC 33; 2019 NCBC 30. Most recently,