Though challenges to Business Court designations, i.e. subject matter jurisdiction, are relatively common (see, e.g., Business Court Retains Case Even After ‘Jurisdictional Hook’ Claim is Dismissed), challenges
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Once a Business Court Case, Always a Business Court Case

Business Court Retains Case Even After ‘Jurisdictional Hook’ Claim Is Dismissed.
We know that only certain types of claims can trigger Business Court jurisdiction. See N.C.G.S. 7A-45.4. But what…
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Remnants of Hurricane Florence: Recovery Disasters that Follow the Natural Ones
Business Court examines personal jurisdiction over restoration company CEO
Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on September 14, 2018, and its slow-moving chaos brought more than 30…
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When the (International) Shoe Doesn’t Fit
Business Court Holds North Carolina Arbitration and Choice-of-Law Provisions Insufficient to Exercise Personal Jurisdiction over England-Based Company
In Curvature, Inc. v. Cantel Computer Servs. Ltd., 2019 NCBC 47 (N.C.
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Can a Private Corporation Be Required to Produce Its “Public” Records?
N.C. Business Court Considers When a Private Company Can Be Deemed a State “Agency” for Purposes of the Public Records Act
In Southern Environmental Law Center v. Saylor et al.…
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Don’t Fence Me In Again
N.C. Business Court Refuses to Allow Member-Managers to Assert Contract Claims Belonging to their LLC.

In its second opinion in Bennett v. Bennett, 2019 NCBC 45 (N.C. Super. Ct.
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Marshall at Sutter’s Sawmill
N.C. Business Court Dismisses All Counterclaims in a Dispute Stemming from a Failed Romance.
In Rabinowitz v. Suvillaga, 2019 NCBC 7 (N.C. Super. Jan. 28, 2019), Judge Robinson granted …
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Don’t Fence Me In
N.C. Business Court Declines to Impose Fiduciary Duties among Sibling Managers of an LLC and Declines to Extend Any “Control Group” Exception to LLCs, but allows Dissolution Claim to Survive,
Love May Make a Subaru a Subaru, but Title is Still Required to Claim It.
N.C. Business Court Rejects Novel Fraudulent Conveyance Defense Which Offered Up Assets of Allegedly Drained Entity.
The N.C. Business Court has issued three rulings this summer on the pleadings in…
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Seven of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
N.C. Business Court Dismisses Counterclaims of an ALF Medical Provider for Lack of Standing.

In Doctors Making Housecalls-Internal Medicine, P.A. v. Onsite Care, PLLC, 2019 NCBC 5 (N.C.
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