CBD Industry Dispute Examines when Conduct Outside an Entity can be Considered an Internal Dispute that Avoids Gateway to Unfair Trade Practice Damages
The CBD product market, by some estimates, could skyrocket to $19.5 billion by 2025. With farmers, manufacturers
Continue Reading The Trouble with Trebles
Counsel in North Carolina Derivative Actions can Represent Company, and Targeted Directors who do not Face “Serious Charges of Wrongdoing”
Amidst a “bitter family dispute” over future control of a closely held oil company, can the same law firm represent
Continue Reading One Law Firm. Two Clients. Three Times the Complexity.
Hog Supplier Allowed Discovery to Prove Smithfield Foods Impermissibly Favored Other Vendors Despite Contract Clause
The paths that lead to the North Carolina Business Court are often paved with the broken hearts of business partners whose interests, and fortunes, have
Continue Reading NC Business Court Refuses to Strike a Most-Favored-Nation Clause Challenged as Hopelessly Vague by Pork Industry Titan
What: 9th Annual Business Court Seminar
When: Friday, October 22, 2021
Where: Mecklenburg County Bar and Foundation Center, 2850 Zebulon Road, Charlotte, NC 28208 OR Virtually
This link provides more information, including an agenda and a way to register for
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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 spiritual undertaking. Yet, there are limits that test even the
Continue Reading In a Church Divided, Secular Courts Have Limited Tools to Rejoin What a Congregation has Put Asunder
Evidence a Party Controls, but Fails to Marshal at Trial, Falls Short of High Bar to Undo a Final Judgment Based on an Adversary’s Fraud
When a motion for reconsideration hearing features a plaintiff’s accusation that the court made arguments
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Major Expansion at an Exclusive Country Club Leads to a Fight over Access to Records, Plans and Financials
At one of Charlotte’s finest golf courses, Myers Park Country Club, the summer weather isn’t all that’s leaving some members hot
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State’s Authority over North Carolina Railroad Company Might be Significant, but Deemed Control of a “Shareholder,” not a “Sovereign”
In a case closely watched by public transit activists and “government in the sunshine” advocates, the North Carolina Supreme Court last
Continue Reading NC Supreme Court Narrows What Counts as a “Public Record” Held by Private Entities with Extensive Government Ties
Large Settlement Led to a Big Plot Reveal: The Agreement was Never Executed
Rule 1.5(c) of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct provides protection to clients with its requirement that “[a] contingent fee arrangement shall be in a writing
Continue Reading Contingency Drama
As a still-young judicial panel, the Business Court frequently has an opportunity to define its boundaries in the face of challenges to its jurisdictional reach. In Inhold, LLC v. PureShield, Inc., 2021 NCBC 2, the Court considered a trade
Continue Reading Business Court Confirms the “Special” Cases Where State Law Claims “Arise Under” Federal Law Remain a Rarity
