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 at the highest courts of both the country and this state. The results in both courts placed a potential value on nominal damages that far
In its second opinion in Bennett v. Bennett, 2019 NCBC 45 (N.C. Super. Ct. Aug. 6, 2019), the Business Court denied Plaintiff Bert Bennett’s motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim by an LLC, but granted his motion
In Bennett v. Bennett, 2019 NCBC 18 (N.C. Super. Ct. Mar. 15, 2019),
In Doctors Making Housecalls-Internal Medicine, P.A. v. Onsite Care, PLLC, 2019 NCBC 5 (N.C. Super. Ct. Jan. 16, 2019), Judge McGuire granted the Plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the counterclaims of its competitor for lack of standing because the allegations
In the Business Court’s first opinion of 2019, Slaughter v. Winner Enterprises of Carolina Beach, LLC, 2019 NCBC 1 (N.C. Super. Ct. Jan. 7, 2019), Judge McGuire considered Defendants’ standing arguments under Rule 12(b)(1), and merits arguments under
In December 2018, the Supreme Court of North Carolina decided the appeal of Corwin v. British Am. Tobacco PLC in 4-3 decision