North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Plaintiffs filed suit against the defendant-limited liability company in New Hanover County, voluntarily dismissed that suit without prejudice, and filed a confession of judgment against defendant in Pender County. When the second of the LLC’s two managers intervened in the ...

  Nowhere in plaintiff’s petition for judicial review of an administrative decision did plaintiff make the necessary allegations for a breach of contract claim. Plaintiff’s subsequent civil claim for breach of contract is not barred by res judicata. We affirm ...

  Even if skill helps players to win plaintiffs’ sweepstakes games, since the games are conducted through an “entertaining display,” the games violate G.S. § 14-306.4. We reverse the trial court’s permanent injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing our gambling ...

  Even if skill helps players to win plaintiffs’ sweepstakes games, since the games are conducted through an “entertaining display,” the games violate G.S. § 14-306.4. We reverse the trial court’s permanent injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing our gambling ...

Not only did plaintiff violate many non-jurisdictional appellate rules (by failing to timely serve the proposed record on appeal as required by N.C. R. App. P. 11(b), by failing to timely file the record on appeal pursuant to Rule 12(a), ...

Respondent’s only argument on appeal is that Dr. Richard Benson’s petition to involuntarily commit her lacked sufficient facts to show reasonable grounds for involuntary commitment. However, because respondent did not challenge the sufficiency of the petition during the initial involuntary ...

Where a class action lawsuit resulted in the dismissal of 10 out of 64 plaintiffs and settled for a total damages award of only 3% the initial amount sought, an award of attorneys’ fees that was almost double the amount ...

  Once the trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment, plaintiff could have appealed the trial court’s interlocutory order denying plaintiff’s motion to amend his complaint. In order to appeal the interlocutory order, however, plaintiff was required to designate ...

Where a Hungarian businessman sold a company to another Hungarian company, violating an injunction, the Hungarian company’s participation in the businessman’s injunction violation was insufficient to provide the court a basis for exercising personal jurisdiction over it. Background In the ...

An eDiscovery order—permitting plaintiffs’ agent to access defendants’ computer system, and not permitting defendants to review many materials before they are turned over to plaintiffs—does not provide sufficient protection as to defendants’ attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine. We vacate ...