Standing

Supreme Court Rules that Nominal Damages Can Be Quite Valuable…Maybe?

By Ashley Barton Chandler on May 21, 2021

In March, the concept of nominal damages (often just a single dollar awarded to a plaintiff to represent a defendant’s liability in the absence of actual damages) took center stage…
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Don’t Fence Me In Again

By Fox Rothschild LLP on September 6, 2019

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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Don’t Fence Me In

By Fox Rothschild LLP on August 12, 2019

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,

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Seven of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

By Fox Rothschild LLP on July 29, 2019

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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War of the Roses

By Fox Rothschild LLP on June 7, 2019

N.C. Business Court allows one judicial dissolution claim to survive, but dismisses another premised on veil-piercing.

In the Business Court’s first opinion of 2019, Slaughter v. Winner Enterprises of Carolina …
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Smoke ’em if You Got ’em.

By Fox Rothschild LLP on June 2, 2019

N.C. Supreme Court Holds that Dilution of Shareholders’ Voting Power is an Injury Giving Standing to Sue, but Leaves Open Whether a Minority Shareholder Exercising Actual Control Owes Fiduciary Duties

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