North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After the trial court entered default judgment against defendant (on plaintiffs’ claims that he had defamed them on social media), defendant first filed notice of appeal and only then, after the trial court had been deprived of jurisdiction by his ...

Although the trial court granted summary judgment for defendant as to all of plaintiff’s claims, since defendant’s counterclaim remains pending, the order appealed is interlocutory. Plaintiff acknowledges that defendant’s counterclaim remains pending and cites You v. Roe, 97 N.C. App. ...

Because of a dispute within the defendant-church as to who has authority over the church’s bank accounts, the plaintiff-bank filed this interpleader action. The trial court’s order allowing the bank to deposit the funds with the clerk of court is ...

Where (1) on 30 May 2019, plaintiffs filed a pro se complaint alleging the defendant-town had unlawfully spent public funds to pay for a town council member’s legal defense; (2) on 5 July 2019, plaintiffs amended their complaint pro se; ...

Plaintiff’s and appellant Sullivan’s claims for damages arising out of a fire were consolidated for trial. Although the actions were to be tried together for the sake of convenience and judicial economy, the actions remained separate suits. Sullivan was not ...

Where the trial court simply granted partial summary judgment for plaintiff on its claim for an injunction, the trial court did not enter an actual permanent injunction order, which would have required it to set forth the reasons for its ...

Within a year after he voluntarily dismissed his complaint on 26 September 2018, plaintiff obtained from the clerk of court an order extending the time to re-file his complaint; however, plaintiff did not have a summons issued at that time. ...

  We affirm two rulings by the Business Court: 2020 NCBC 56 (Given defendants’ pattern of failing to comply with discovery, deceiving the court, and continuously using documents containing plaintiffs’ trade secrets and other confidential information which the court specifically ...

    After a prison guard was murdered by an inmate, the guard’s estate brought claims against the Department of Public Safety pursuant to Woodson v. Rowland, 329 N.C. 330, 407 S.E.2d 222 (1991), and Corum v. University of North ...

Plaintiffs failed to produce documents requested in discovery, failed to obey the court’s sanctions order, agreed to timelines without making any determination as to whether such timelines were feasible, sought extension after extension, and have yet to produce a single ...