The North Carolina Business Court has implemented a new subscriber-based email alert system to keep readers up to date on the Court’s recent decisions. The alert will hit subscribers’ inboxes
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Confidential. To a point. The Business Court Takes On “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Designations
When it comes to confidentiality designations, “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” (“AEO”) typically offers the most stringent level of “protection” for sensitive information disclosed during a case. No one except the attorneys
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The Trouble with Trebles
CBD Industry Dispute Examines when Conduct Outside an Entity can be Considered an Internal Dispute that Avoids Gateway to Unfair Trade Practice Damages
The CBD product market, by some estimates,
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One Law Firm. Two Clients. Three Times the Complexity.
Counsel in North Carolina Derivative Actions can Represent Company, and Targeted Directors who do not Face “Serious Charges of Wrongdoing”
Amidst a “bitter family dispute” over future control of a
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NC Business Court Refuses to Strike a Most-Favored-Nation Clause Challenged as Hopelessly Vague by Pork Industry Titan
Hog Supplier Allowed Discovery to Prove Smithfield Foods Impermissibly Favored Other Vendors Despite Contract Clause
The paths that lead to the North Carolina Business Court are often paved with the
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Business Court Seminar Set for October 22
What: 9th Annual Business Court Seminar
When: Friday, October 22, 2021
Where: Mecklenburg County Bar and Foundation Center, 2850 Zebulon Road, Charlotte, NC 28208 OR Virtually
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In a Church Divided, Secular Courts Have Limited Tools to Rejoin What a Congregation has Put Asunder
Discord within a faith community comes with all the challenges of a secular dispute, but carries with it the special responsibility that members of a congregation share in a collective
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To Thine Own Documents be True
Evidence a Party Controls, but Fails to Marshal at Trial, Falls Short of High Bar to Undo a Final Judgment Based on an Adversary’s Fraud
When a motion for reconsideration
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A Clubhouse Conundrum
Major Expansion at an Exclusive Country Club Leads to a Fight over Access to Records, Plans and Financials
At one of Charlotte’s finest golf courses, Myers Park Country Club,
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NC Supreme Court Narrows What Counts as a “Public Record” Held by Private Entities with Extensive Government Ties
State’s Authority over North Carolina Railroad Company Might be Significant, but Deemed Control of a “Shareholder,” not a “Sovereign”
In a case closely watched by public transit activists and “government
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