North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A father who fully complied with an interim child support order has been hit with a second order requiring him to make retroactive payments covering the same time period. The case is Sikes v. Sikes (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. ...

Even though state regulations require that illegally filled wetlands be restored to their original condition, a trial judge had authority to impose a lesser remedy, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 7. The case is State v. Simpson ...

A textile company that refused to pay for goods it said were overpriced may not rely on the defense of unconscionability when sued for breach of contract, the Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 7. This is so because the trial ...

A carpenter injured while working for an uninsured corporation could pierce the corporate veil and look to the principal owner for workers’ compensation benefits, the Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 7. The corporation was merely a front for the owner’s ...

A Jan. 7 decision from the Court of Appeals clarifies when the clock starts running on arbitration clauses in commercial contracts. A unanimous panel has ruled that even though a contract dispute arose two years before one party moved to ...

The long-running saga of Coman v. Thomas Mfg. Co., the landmark wrongful discharge case, ended Jan. 7, when the Court of Appeals affirmed a trial verdict for the employer. The decision is the latest in a series of trial and ...

Courts have long struggled with the doctrine of proximate cause. But they have little trouble when a chain of events stretches foreseeability to its breaking point. Consider the facts the Court of Appeals ruled on last week in Westbrook v. ...

Courts have long struggled with the doctrine of proximate cause. But they have little trouble when a chain of events stretches foreseeability to its breaking point. Consider the facts the Court of Appeals ruled on last week in Westbrook v. ...

Courts have long struggled with the doctrine of proximate cause. But they have little trouble when a chain of events stretches foreseeability to its breaking point. Consider the facts the Court of Appeals ruled on last week in Westbrook v. ...

A retainer agreement that appeared to impose a “back-door’ contingency fee for alimony and child support work has been struck down by the Court of Appeals as violating public policy. In a second issue, the court upheld Rule 11 sanctions ...