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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Plaintiff Lee Norris and defendant James Schaafsma
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Amidst a “bitter family dispute” over future control of a
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It’s not often that the rote listing of involved attorneys at the outset of a Business Court opinion gives much of a clue of what issues lie ahead. A curious
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Judge Robinson recently issued an order containing what may be the first interpretation of the “Special Meeting” provisions of the North Carolina Business Corporation Act (the “Act”), N.C. Gen. Stat.
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!
-Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, shoe sage.
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In its second opinion in Bennett v. Bennett, 2019 NCBC 45 (N.C. Super. Ct.
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