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NCADA is looking for a few good lawyers
The deadline is fast approaching for nominations for leadership and practice group positions with the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys. The association is seeking nominations to fill five seats […]
Contract – Unfair Trade Practices Claim – Commercial – Promissory Note – Banks & Banking
SunTrust Bank v. Bryant/Sutphin Properties, LLC Although defendants contended that the plaintiff-bank committed unfair practices separate from the parties’ contracts, in alleging these “separate” acts, defendants were really claiming that the bank acted outside of its authority under the contract; this is a breach of contract. Since the jury found that the bank had not breached the [...]
Insurance – Commercial – Schools & School Boards – Labor & Employment – Unpaid Overtime
Republic Franklin Ins. Co. v. Albemarle County School Board An Albemarle County school board’s failure to pay its school bus drivers and transportation assistants overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act was a “wrongful act” under the school board’s commercial insurance policy, and the policy does not cover wage payments but should cover liquidated damages and attorney’s [...]
$5.2M award in dispute over competing medical equipment business
On July 11, 2008, Kight’s Medical Corp. (“KMC”) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Wake County against Ginger Kight Pickett (“Pickett”), the former manager of KMC’s Chesapeake, Va., […]
Commercial – Contract – N.C. Wine Distribution Agreements Act
The Country Vintner of North Carolina v. E. & J. Gallo Winery, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-02-1031, 13 pp.) (W. Earl Britt, J.) U.S.E.D. The District Court denied plaintiff’s motion […]
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