A dispute between co-owners of a trampoline park in Asheville came before the Business Court, appropriately enough, on defendants’ motion to bounce plaintiffs’ claims regarding misappropriation of funds. In Bivins
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Supreme Court Rules that Nominal Damages Can Be Quite Valuable…Maybe?
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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
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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
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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,
Seven of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
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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
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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.
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