North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Arbitration  Non-Party – Credit Card – Equitable Estoppel  In a case arising out of the installation of a water treatment system in plaintiff’s home, defendant Home Depot is not entitled to enforce the arbitration provisions in plaintiff’s credit card contract or ...

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Prosecutors may be able to move ahead with child abuse charges that were brought against a Henderson County man after his conviction for attempted murder was overturned on appeal because of a faulty indictment.  The North Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ...

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A Business Court has discretion in how it determines the “fair value” of shares in a sale as long as it considers the “customary and current valuation concepts and techniques,” the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a case ...

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Cherokee County has agreed to pay $4 million to a woman who was unlawfully removed from her home when she was a minor by Department of Social Services employees who created and executed a fraudulent document that illegally separated dozens of families ...

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A charter school and its CEO can be liable under the False Claims Act, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting the defendants’ efforts to evade prosecution by classifying themselves as a state agency and public officer entitled to ...

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 A truck driver who was injured by falling cargo has settled her suit for $2.2 million, her attorneys report.  Adrienne Blocker and Michael A. DeMayo of DeMayo Law Offices in Charlotte report that their client, identified only as “KW,” was seriously injured in 2015 ...

A Cumberland County couple that posted nude photos of the husband’s then-wife on the internet remains on the hook for a $3.21 million jury verdict awarded to the husband’s ex-wife after the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the ...

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A newly enacted bipartisan state budget contains long-needed new investments for the state’s court system that judicial branch officials believe will help move the state and its judiciary forward.  Officials with the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts say that the ...

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The estate of a North Carolina man who was killed when the plane he was on crashed into an Alaskan mountain has settled its wrongful death claim for $1.5 million, his attorneys report. Benjamin Bridges III of Salisbury, John Tantum ...

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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act doesn’t give private plaintiffs a right to sue for injunctive relief, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in an issue of first impression that has divided other circuits courts, ...

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