By Phillip Bantz
Published: May 17,2013
Here’s a little story of comeuppance for anyone out there who has ever been harassed by a debt collector. The collection agency in this case, Green Tree Servicing, seems to have worked itself into a legal pickle by repeatedly hounding a couple, Timothy and Colleen Redmond, to pay their landlord’s debt. That’s right: The Redmonds [...]
By Phillip Bantz
Published: May 17,2013
Remember when Wally Cleaver got boozed up at a college rager, then got arrested for drunken driving on the way home? Or how about that time the cops busted Wally’s buddy for smoking one of those funny cigarettes? The Cleaver family from the real “Leave It to Beaver” show of the 1950s and 60s was [...]
By Amy Stevens
Published: May 10,2013
Want to skip work? Our staff of in-house miscreants has compiled a handy list of excuses for your use: My car wouldn’t start. I don’t feel well. My Uncle Zeke died. I have jury duty. Uh, wait a minute. You might need to use a bit of caution with that last one. Recently, an employee [...]
By Amber Nimocks
Published: May 10,2013
We here at Sidebar are not making ourselves up. And neither is anyone else. We felt compelled to offer this assurance after reading a recent report that Australian legal-news reporter Michelle Boatley does not exist. Also, she seems to be dead. The news came from JimRomenesko.com, the well-respected news industry web site authored by the [...]
By David Donovan
Published: May 10,2013
A former employee of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (they make maps … but, like, for national security purposes) claims he lost his security clearance because the NGA didn’t like the way his wife exercised her rights of free speech and religion. He took his case all the way to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
By Amber Nimocks
Published: May 10,2013
Another newspaper died late last month, victim of the halting economic recovery and the digital revolution, when Greensboro’s Rhino Times announced online that it had published its last print edition. Attorneys weep – certainly those who spent many billable hours working on the paper’s behalf. “We kept hoping the economy would turn around, and it [...]
By Amber Nimocks
Published: May 3,2013
We’re not going to say the North Carolina General Assembly has contemplated reams of frivolous legislation this session. But we will admit to being thankful when the national press briefly shifted its attention to a Missouri state senator last month after he proposed a statewide ban on seersucker suits. We’re happy to share the spotlight. [...]
By David Donovan
Published: May 3,2013
Fewer than two months after signing what it vehemently argued was a “walk away” settlement agreement, one plaintiff came running back for more. Taidoc Technology Corp., a maker of blood glucose testing products, and Diagnostic Devices, Inc., a distributor, tangled for years over recriminations from a business partnership gone sour. After a jury awarded essentially [...]
By David Donovan
Published: May 3,2013
Last week on this page we reported that attorneys placed No. 117 in CareerCast.com’s 2013 ranking of 200 careers. We should have kept on reading. Like, all the way to the bottom. Finishing dead last on that list, at No. 200, was “Reporter (Newspaper),” those humble scribes such as us. Some of the jobs that [...]
By David Donovan
Published: April 26,2013
In one recent court case, it was easy to spot the problem: A Wilmington man actually trusted what a used car salesman told him. According to an unpublished opinion from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, Warren Jackson called Ocean Auto Brokers of Virginia Beach about a 2003 Mercedes-Benz C320 the dealership had listed on [...]
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Bartlett v. Wayne County Board of Education Plaintiffs contend that the majority of eyewitnesses in this case testified that the responding officer’s diagram depicting the accident scene was accurate, that the diagram demonstrates plaintiffs’ “van had to have been almost directly in front of the bus at the time [the bus driver] started her turn,” and that this evidence conclusively established that the bus driver failed to yield the right-of-way to plaintiffs’ van.
Fidelity Bank v. North Carolina Department of Revenue Even though the N.C. Revenue Act uses the Internal Revenue Code to determine state net income, and even though the Code treats “market discount income” on U.S. Treasury bonds as interest for purposes of the Code, under the N.C. Revenue Act market discount income on U.S. Treasury bonds is treated as income rather than interest.
Apex Tool Group, LLC v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. Neither plaintiff nor the individual defendants are Texas residents; nevertheless, each of the individual defendants’ employment agreements includes an unambiguous and mandatory forum selection clause, which says any lawsuit involving the agreement must be brought in Harris County, Texas. The employment agreements were entered into by plaintiff’s predecessor and the individual defendants, who apparently did not live in Texas when they entered into the contracts and thus apparently anticipated interstate travel in the event of a trial.
