North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

    Nine years after plaintiff K2 Asia Ventures filed the complaint in this action and three years after defendant asserted that plaintiff was not the real party in interest, plaintiff sought to substitute its actual corporate name, K2 Asia ...

  In G.S. § 95-264(b), the Workplace Violence Prevention Act gives trial courts broad authority to award appropriate relief in no-contact orders. In this case, that authority included requiring respondent to turn over a video he recorded when he returned ...

  Even though plaintiff filed its original lawsuit against defendant in 2008 based on a credit account that plaintiff had purchased, since plaintiff obtained a default judgment in that lawsuit, and since plaintiff filed the instant lawsuit to renew the ...

Kay Harris Turner moves to intervene based on her argument that she has an interest in property at issue in this lawsuit, particularly in regard to the Nivison parties’ $2.1 million claim against the JDPW Trust, that would “denigrate [her] ...

Defendant BBP Bandenia, PLC, had until June 19, 2020, to file its notice of appeal. Although Bandenia electronically filed its notice of appeal on the Business Court’s docket on June 19, 2020, this method of filing does not satisfy the ...

In their depositions, two defendants testified about an attorney’s advice as to how to legally go about forming their new company—which would compete with their then-employer, plaintiff—while they were still working for plaintiff. Such testimony waived defendants’ attorney-client privilege as ...

  Although plaintiff argues that his defendant-siblings convinced their mother, Rosemary, of the truth of their current counterclaims—i.e., that plaintiff embezzled money from her—thereby unduly influencing Rosemary to disinherit him, plaintiff’s claims and defendants’ counterclaims require the proof of different ...

    At the trial-court level, plaintiffs argued that North Carolina could exercise personal jurisdiction over the New York defendant by piercing the veil of the defunct corporate defendant. On appeal, plaintiffs argue that “it is agency principles, not corporate ...

  The uncontradicted facts from the record show that (1) the Florida defendant-lender reached out to the plaintiff-loan broker by email and by telephone on a number of occasions while plaintiff was in North Carolina, including a call in which ...

  Although defendant contends no one was home when plaintiff’s summons and complaint were delivered to her address via certified mail—the receipt for which bears an illegible signature—defendant’s evidence was insufficient to rebut the presumption of proper service of process ...