Federated Financial Corp. of America v. Rowell. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0773, 9 pp.) (James A. Wynn Jr., J.) Appealed from Wake County District Court. (Jane P. Gray, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where defendant did not timely move for a ...

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UGL UNICCO v. Local Lodge # 2541. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-02-0724, 5 pp.) (Terrence W. Boyle, J.) E.D.N.C. Holding: Plaintiff’s unionized workforce performs maintenance services at facilities owned by other entities. A union worker was banned from the facility where ...

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James S. Whitlock III expects to receive his law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2011. In the meantime he has earned a more practical, firsthand legal education litigating his own personal injury claim against an alleged negligent driver and two large insurance companies.

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Whitlock v. Triangle Grading Contr'rs Dev., Inc. Because the defendants failed to point to any evidence suggesting that the plaintiff was a party to the arbitration agreement between insurers, or that he adopted the agreement, sought to benefit directly from the arbitration [...]

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Air Line Pilots Ass’n Int’l v. US Airways Group. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-01-0633, 17 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 09-2083, June 23, 2010; USDC at Alexandria, Va. 4th Cir. Holding: The Railway Labor Act does not permit an airline pilots’ union ...

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Plaintiff, age 47, was at her place of business when a vehicle ran over the curb and through the front glass window, pinning and crushing her against the wall. She sustained a displaced fracture of her fibula and a fracture ...

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An investor who claimed she was defrauded by an investment firm and its former stockbroker can pursue her lawsuit in court instead of in arbitration, an N.C. Business Court judge has ruled in a case that could have a major ...

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The plaintiff is a young male who was in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time of the accident. A motorist struck him while he was on his bicycle in Chapel Hill. The plaintiff wore a bicycle helmet at ...

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The plaintiff is a young male who was in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time of the accident. A motorist struck him while he was on his bicycle in Chapel Hill. The plaintiff wore a bicycle helmet at ...

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