The minority shareholders of a podiatry practice felt like they had been kicked around by the alleged financial misadventures of two colleagues who together controlled an 80 percent interest. A
Continue Reading Minority Shareholders can “Follow the Money” Linked To Alleged Diversions by Majority for Phantom Salaries and BenefitsDiscord 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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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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At Fifth and Church streets in uptown Charlotte, a group of investors opened the aptly named
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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
Continue Reading N.C. Business Court Declines to Adopt Rule that a Minority Shareholder Exercising “Actual Control” Could Have Fiduciary Duty to Other Shareholders.
The Black Forest Family Camping Resort, Inc.,
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