At the NCBA’s annual Antitrust and Complex Business Disputes Section CLE last week, there was a panel segment of the North Carolina Business Court Judges. Fox Rothschild was there, and
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How High is the Bar to Prove a Plaintiff’s Complaint is a Mere Sham?
In the Business Court,
Consider it Pole Vaulting
A familiar Business Court journey – former employees and alleged trade secret misappropriation – took a detour in Lowder Construction, Inc. v.
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Once … Twice … Three times… You’re sanctioned.
Considering whether to add a Chapter 75 claim to your breach of contract dispute? If you don’t have substantial aggravating circumstances, resist the urge and don’t assert the Chapter 75
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Scrutinizing With Particularity
N.C. Business Court Digs into Pleading Requirements in Tossing Three Misrepresentation-Based Claims
A “failed deal” or contract often gives rise to claims for breach of contract, fraud, and/or negligent misrepresentation.
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What the Business Court Judges Want You to Know
Following up on my post from earlier this week, the Mecklenburg County Business Court CLE concluded on Friday with the panel of Judges, Chief Judge Bledsoe, Judge McGuire,
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Business Court Statistics
This past Friday, the Mecklenburg County Bar held its 7th Annual North Carolina Business Court CLE. If you regularly practice in the Business Court, this is a “must attend.”
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N.C. Business Court Remains Suspicious of a Chapter 75 Claim Involving Internal Corporate Strife, But Allows the Claim to Survive the Pleadings Stage
The Business Court tentatively waded back into its well-settled case law that tends to scold litigants who try to convert internal company disputes into unfair trade practice claims in Constr.
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Not an Offer He Can’t Refuse
N.C. Business Court Dismisses Two Contract Claims on Summary Judgment for Lack of Mutuality
In separate cases, the North Carolina Business Court answers the question: When exactly is a contract
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Seven of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
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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War of the Roses
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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