North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Plaintiff bought a business and then saw 30 percent of its clients disappear when employees, who were brought over from the former owner, formed a new business and left plaintiff’s employ. The claims that plaintiff asserts against the sellers of ...

While waiting for park visitors to leave so they could start their clean-up duties, plaintiff and his co-workers rode a Bobcat ATV to the park dumpsters. During the ride, the ATV overturned, leaving plaintiff seriously injured. Defendant did not challenge ...

Where a West Virginia statute governing the order in which candidates’ names appear on state election ballots was neutral and nondiscriminatory, and any modest burden on the Democratic Party’s rights was justified by the state’s interests in promoting efficiency and ...

Where enrollees in the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, or NCSHP, alleged the plan violated the Affordable Care Act by categorically denying coverage for gender dysphoria treatments, NCSHP, which accepts federal funds, is not entitled ...

Where the government contractor did not supervise plaintiff’s work product, determine her hours or provide her with equipment necessary to perform her duties, it lacked the degree of control over the essential terms and conditions of her work necessary to ...

Although the Fairfax County School Board urged the entire Fourth Circuit to rehear an appeal involving its liability for student sexual misconduct, it failed to garner a majority of the judges in regular active service and not disqualified. Background A ...

Where Dylan Roof, a white supremacist who pleaded guilty to killing nine members of a Charleston, South Carolina, church, made multiple challenges to his death sentence, including that he lacked competency to stand trial, that it was error to allow ...

  Counterclaimants allege that counterclaim defendant Greg “Lindberg and his representatives fraudulently and intentionally misled [counterclaimant John] Rodgers into believing that Lindberg had, at all times operated his business portfolio in a prudent and lawful manner.” There are no particular ...

Where (1) a predecessor company allegedly polluted North Carolina’s air, water and land; (2) a contract and its amendment can be read to say successor corporations assumed the predecessor company’s liabilities; and (3) the complaint alleges that the predecessor company’s ...

Although the parties did not enter into operating agreements for their limited liability companies, defendants have sufficiently alleged that the parties’ partnership and franchise agreements function as the operating agreements for their LLCs. The court denies plaintiff’s motion to dismiss ...