This lawsuit involves breach of a confidential settlement agreement. In motion briefing, both sides relied on and filed the subject agreement. Both sides also filed (unopposed) motions to seal it.
Continue Reading No rubber stamps here. Judge Conrad denies a motion to seal.By Jeff MacHarg and Camryn Rohr.
Judge Conrad’s Final Judgment in Airtron, Inc. v. Bradley Allen Heinrich ends this years-long Chapter 75, trade secret case. No doubt, the plaintiff (Airtron)
Continue Reading No lawyer, no problem. Justice will still be served.
A member seeking to dissolve an LLC which owns a mothballed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, didn’t have a “ghost of a chance” to close out a struggling
Continue Reading Business Court Gives Maggie Valley’s Ghost Town in the Sky More Time to Scare up Some Investors
When discovery goes so off the rails that a court declares a party “has stalled the progress” of a case, prejudiced its opponent and “wasted judicial resources,” there’s little doubt
Continue Reading When Discovery Goes Off Track, can a Pro Se Party Right the Course?
When an amended complaint renders the arguments of a motion to dismiss moot, what effect does it have on the public’s ability to view the parties’ filings on the motion?
Continue Reading A Publicly Filed Court Document Does Make a Sound, Even if No One is Around to Hear It
After a six-day jury trial including evidence of “no show” jobs, questionable “friends and family” payroll slots, and allegations of fraud and embezzlement, a Mecklenburg County jury returned a $3-million-plus
Continue Reading When Doing the Same Thing Over Again and Expecting Different Results is not Insane, a Court Explains
The NC Department of Revenue sought to throw some shade at the financing regimes through which solar farm and other renewable energy projects are built by challenging the flow of
Continue Reading Business Court Rejects Effort to Eclipse Tax Credit Regime that Spurred NC Solar Farm Builds
The Palmetto Medical Group had a “messy divorce.”
Palmetto’s three physicians had settled into “mutual distrust” and got a good distance down the road toward separation by negotiating a Practice
Continue Reading When “Divorcing” Physicians Scuffle Over Contractual Plans to Honor Patient Choice, do they Render Medical Service?
If the Federal Trade Commission has its way, litigation fights like the one between IQVIA, Inc. and Circuit Clinical Solutions, Inc. over the job switch of executive Dana Edwards will
Continue Reading A Swan Song for Noncompete Clauses?
If a court “throws the book” at steadfastly uncooperative litigants, did it really happen if there’s no one around to take the hit? The Business Court tested that “tree falling
Continue Reading Do Sanctions Against AWOL Litigants Make a Sound When they Land?