A pair of brothers has won a $340,388 summary judgment verdict against their former attorney, who is also their cousin, who they claim swindled them out of their share of a piece of property they all inherited, their attorneys ...

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  A federal jury has awarded $1.95 million to a Charlotte financial advising firm that helped secure financing for a company that later refused to pay the firm’s full financing fee, the firm’s attorneys report.  In 2014, Prassas Capital found ...

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A jury has decided in favor of author Nicholas Sparks in a defamation and breach of contract lawsuit that a former headmaster lodged against the novelist, the private school he founded in New Bern, and his foundation. Saul Benjamin filed ...

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  A cattle farmer’s claim that he lost millions of dollars because a Wisconsin genetics company that specializes in in-vitro fertilization and genetic manipulation of prize cattle didn’t keep life-saving nitrogen in the tanks that preserved his bull semen and ...

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More than 10,000 sewer customers in Kernersville will receive $12.3 million in refunds and interest for excess charges they paid from 2012-2016, plaintiffs’ attorneys have reported. According to a media release by those attorneys, the town of Kernersville and the ...

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A judge has ordered Foodbuy of Charlotte, the country’s largest food service procurement company, to pay $9.26 million to a New Jersey juice manufacturer for over-invoicing it, attorneys report. Kurt Lindquist, Emily Doll, and Russ Ferguson of Womble Bond Dickinson ...

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Plaintiff, a private medical practice, asserted claims of breach of contract and the duty of loyalty, tortious interference, fraud, and misappropriation of trade name against the defendants, who are plaintiff’s former office manager and nurse practitioner. Plaintiff alleged that defendants ...

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DURHAM (AP) A breach-of-contract lawsuit brought against Duke University by a soccer player accused of sexual misconduct has been resolved, but neither party will reveal the terms. The News & Observer reports the case ended July 30, months after Ciaran McKenna won ...

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  Copart Inc., a Texas-based online automobile-auction provider, successfully defended a $50 million breach of contract claim brought by Frank L. Bailey Inc., a Guilford County company. The claim was brought in Guilford County Superior Court in late 2016 after ...

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The court gives defendants’ former law students a chance to amend their complaints to state claims for fraud and negligent misrepresentation arising from defendants’ statements and omissions about the defendant-law school’s conformity with American Bar Association standards. Defendants’ motions to ...

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