Discord within a faith community comes with all the challenges of a secular dispute, but carries with it the special responsibility that members of a congregation share in a collective
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Supreme Court Rules that Nominal Damages Can Be Quite Valuable…Maybe?
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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When Judging Investment Options by the Numbers, Second Follows First, and Nothing Else
Business Court Confirms a Right
To Invest in a “Second” Project
Extends No Further
At Fifth and Church streets in uptown Charlotte, a group of investors opened the aptly named
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N.C. Business Court Declines to Adopt Rule that a Minority Shareholder Exercising “Actual Control” Could Have Fiduciary Duty to Other Shareholders.
The Business Court sorted through the drama of an affiliated outsider who wanted to buy a company, settled for half and became an insider, and then allegedly used that perch
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Don’t Fence Me In
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,
Unhappy Campers
The Business Court considers a variety of claims arising out of a family campground business in Bohn v. Black, 2019 NCBC 34.
The Black Forest Family Camping Resort, Inc.,
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