A Georgia-based corporation that won $4.7 million in jury verdicts against a North Carolina company has watched the awards slowly dwindle all the way to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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SQL Sentry, LLC v. ApexSQL, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-107-17, 7 pp.) (Adam Conrad, J.) 2017 NCBC 105 Holding: Although plaintiff alleges that defendant copied plaintiff’s computer code and trade dress, plaintiff has not alleged that defendant deprived plaintiff of ...

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  Addison Whitney, LLC v. Cashion (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-057-17, 19 pp.) (Adam Conrad, J.) 2017 NCBC 50 Holding: When defendants copied electronic information but did not delete the files, defendants did not convert the information because they did not ...

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Levin v. Jacobson (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-001-17, 10 pp.) (Louis Bledsoe III, J.) 2016 NCBC 92 Holding: Even though the $188,000 that defendant Jacobson converted from plaintiffs constituted 79.4 percent of the cash paid at closing for land purchased by ...

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Makadia v. Continental Waste Management, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-033-16, 10 pp.) (James Fox, S.J.) 5:16-cv-00257; E.D.N.C. Holding: Where plaintiff lent money to defendants for a specific purpose – the purchase of two waste management plants in Illinois – and ...

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Swan Racing Co. v. XXXtreme Motorsport, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-04-0759, 11 pp.) (Richard Voorhees, J.) 5:14-cv-00155; W.D.N.C. Holding: Where plaintiff alleges that defendant XXXtreme Motorsport took plaintiff’s asset (its #30 car NASCAR team) without paying, stripped it of any ...

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Faucette v. 6303 Carmel Road, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0723, 21 pp.) (Richard Dietz, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Eric Levinson, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though the parties engaged in mediation and other negotiations, defendants did not ...

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Progress Point One-B Condominium Association, Inc. v. Progress Point One Property Owners Association, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-15-0211, 16 pp.) (Gregory McGuire, J.) 2015 NCBC 20 Holding: Plaintiff’s conversion claim is based on money it voluntarily paid to defendant, but ...

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Valley Proteins, Inc. v. Eco-Collection Systems, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0063, 14 pp.) (Robert C. Hunter, J.) Appealed from Cumberland County Superior Court (Gary Trawick, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where defendant maintains that it gave plaintiff 60 days’ notice ...

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Tire Engineering & Distribution LLC v. Shandong Linglong Rubber Co. Ltd. The 4th Circuit upholds a $26 million verdict for a Florida-based designer and distributor of underground mining tires; the district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over a company domiciled in the United Arab Emirates and a Chinese manufacturer who conspired in Virginia with a former employee of plaintiff to manufacture tires from plaintiff’s blueprints, and defendants are not entitled to a new trial on damages even though the appellate court threw out some of plaintiff’s claims.

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