A familiar Business Court journey – former employees and alleged trade secret misappropriation – took a detour in Lowder Construction, Inc. v. Ronald Phillips, et al., 2020 NCBC 1, 2019 WL 91867 (N.C. Super. Ct. Jan. 8, 2020). See Order and Opinion. A departed employee counter-claimed
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. Managers, Inc. v. Amory, 2019 NCBC 31, 2019 WL 2167311 (N.C. Super. Ct. May 17, 2019). In doing so, the Court denied much of
In a much-watched case, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Business Court in Sykes v. Health Network Solutions. The case was being watched mostly for its analysis of pure, state-law antitrust claims, but the Court evenly divided on that issue, leaving the Business Court’s dismissal standing. In exchange for that disappointment, the