The Business Court recently reminded that while there is great value to showing up and seeing what might happen at mediation, the costs of a decision to avoid the process can be more easily quantified.
In Chi v. N. Riverfront
The Business Court recently reminded that while there is great value to showing up and seeing what might happen at mediation, the costs of a decision to avoid the process can be more easily quantified.
In Chi v. N. Riverfront…
In a litigator’s nightmare, when old wooden floors creak and the house speaks in sinister tones to its owner, it’s not: “Get Out!” that the lawyer hears. It’s: “Your Responses to the Admissions are Late.” Such is the life.
Alas,…
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 verdict for the plaintiffs in Vanguard Pai Lung, LLC v.…
The Business Court regularly deals with disputes that arise from the financial challenges facing start-ups and the principals behind them. As our colleagues Ernie Badway and Josh Horn note, “The bane of every start-up company is the never-ending quest to…
An employee trading places among industry competitors allegedly provided his new employer with bidding and pricing information so critical that the receiving company’s CEO thought it was a “gold mine” it could use “to destroy” the competitor. In considering a…
A dispute between co-owners of a trampoline park in Asheville came before the Business Court, appropriately enough, on defendants’ motion to bounce plaintiffs’ claims regarding misappropriation of funds. In Bivins v. Pacheco, 2023 NCBC 40, two couples who together…
While an insurance carrier “labor[ed] valiantly” to rescue claims over $3.1 million in overpayments to a hospital in its network, the Business Court held it failed because the contract at issue “clearly and unambiguously” required its suit to be filed…
Law360’s Hayley Fowler has an article out about the North Carolina Business Court that charts its beginning to 1996 from the trunk of Judge Ben Tennille’s Toyota. He recalled his travel record, back when the Court had no fixed home…
Jesse Shaver alleges that a founder and CEO of Raleigh-based defense contractor Vadum, Inc., “tricked him into losing his right to equity” in the company. In Shaver v. Walker, 2023 NCBC 27, he claimed that Aaron Walker and another…
In one of many litigations to arise from alleged contamination at the Fayetteville Works chemical manufacturing plant, the Business Court recently decided that a “been there, done that” motion to dismiss should not stop the State of North Carolina from…