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Analysis of North Carolina Business Court Decisions (and other musings)

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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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Posted in Appeals, Fiduciary Duties, Standing

Don’t Fence Me In Again

By Craig Turner 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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Posted in Closely Held Business, Derivative Actions, Judge Conrad, Standing

Don’t Fence Me In

By Craig Turner 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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Posted in Closely Held Business, Dissolution, Fiduciary Duties, Judge Conrad, Meiselman Duties, Standing

Seven of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

By Craig Turner 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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Posted in Abuse of Process, Antitrust, Judge McGuire, Standing

War of the Roses

By Craig Turner 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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Posted in Closely Held Business, Dissolution, Judge McGuire, Judicial Estoppel, Meiselman Duties, Pierce Corporate Veil, Standing

Smoke ’em if You Got ’em.

By Craig Turner 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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Posted in Derivative Actions, Judge Gale, Standing

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