“[T]ime waits for no one,” sage Rolling Stones advice from 1974, doesn’t appear in Black’s Law Dictionary or result in frequent opinion cites for Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, the keen legal observers who wrote it. But it lurks just
In the complex world of “cap and trade” emissions regimes, acquiring credits to offset a company’s pollution portfolio requires decision makers to see the forest for the trees. And sometimes to buy the forest.
That’s what happened in LFF IV
A party trying to serve their pleading used FedEx, but not the right FedEx. Turns out there are a slew of similarly-named FedEx’s, but only certain ones are approved “designated delivery services” under Rule 4. They used “FedEx Express Saver,”
Jeff MacHarg and Alexandra Hirsch
Prevailing at summary judgment is rare. Prevailing when there are competing motions on the same issue (fraud) is even rarer. In this opinion, Judge Davis granted the Defendants’ motion and denied the Plaintiff’s,
A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data they seek, are engaged in a near-daily volley of attacks
Jeff MacHarg and Alexandra Hirsch
To secure a preliminary injunction, a party must present evidence of two things, and fast: (1) likelihood of success on the merits; and (2) irreparable harm. In this recent Order of Significance (denying a preliminary
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) pushed this lawsuit to make a point: if you take
In a costly episode of Aaron Sorkin’s adage that “decisions are made by those who show up,” the majority shareholder in a pair of family-controlled oil and gas companies learned of about 850,000 reasons why attendance can be a virtue
Sometimes a discovery molehill turns into a mountain (of documents) quicker than you can type the word warehouse.
Back in January, in North Carolina ex rel. Stein v. EIDP, Inc., the State raised a discovery dispute regarding the defendants’ reluctance
The road leading away from HCA Healthcare’s 2019 acquisition of the multi-campus Mission Health hospital system in Western North Carolina has been a bumpy ride. HCA has faced suit connected to the transaction alleging it exploited monopoly power – resulting