North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Michele M. Glessner has joined Moore & Van Allen as a member of the firm’s intellectual property group in its Charlotte office. Glessner counsels clients on complex trademark, patent, copyright, and other intellectual property issues. She was previously a partner ...

Where a regulation requires the Department of Homeland Security or DHS, to notify an applicant of the need to provide biometrics, such as photographs and fingerprints; provide the applicant with a biometrics notice and provide instructions for producing biometrics, the ...

Where a man sued the Maryland governor and attorney general over an executive order that he interpreted as prohibiting him from bidding on state procurement contracts due to his personal boycotts of Israel-tied products, but the executive order only prohibited ...

Where a customer alleged his bank violated the Truth in Lending Act, or TILA, by using money in his deposit accounts to pay the outstanding balance on a Home Equity Line of Credit or HELOC, the bank could not compel ...

Where parties to a trust agreement disputed which employers were covered by the agreements, neither the statute nor the trust agreement required the dispute to be arbitrated. Background Under the Labor Management Relations Act, unions and management can enter into ...

Where a federal contractor sought clarification on whether the nature of its Navy service contract made it subject to California’s labor laws, the suit was dismissed because the contractor failed to satisfy the exhaustion requirements of the Contract Disputes Act ...

This dispute involves a buyer who traveled to Florida, negotiated to buy a horse in Florida, and then took possession of the horse in Florida before bringing it to North Carolina. The sellers later arranged for another horse to be ...

Despite defendant’s assertion that she would rely on the affirmative defense of duress, the state should not have introduced evidence of her silence at the time of her arrest. Nevertheless, the trial court’s admission of a single reference to defendant’s ...

Before he shot victim Smith, defendant had been drinking for more than six hours and had acted recklessly in displaying a gun in front of a child; after the shooting, he went to a friend’s house and honked the horn ...

While the intervenor-paternal grandparents’ allegations about (1) their granddaughter’s fear of her plaintiff-mother, (2) the mother’s frequent moves and job changes, and (3) the defendant-father’s pending criminal charges, unemployment, and transportation of the child without a seatbelt were sufficient to ...