A North Carolina judge is refusing to throw out a $6.6 million judgment against rapper Yo Gotti. The Winston-Salem Journal reports the rapper, whose legal name is Mario Mims, appeared in court Monday asking for the decision to be vacated. ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) The family of a man shot to death outside a strip club in North Carolina has been awarded nearly $5 million from the operators of the club. A judge granted a default judgment May 21 against John D. Boyd and ...

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Residents living in North Carolina whose community dam was damaged by Hurricane Matthew have won a $162.5 million judgment against the dam’s owner. The Associated Press reports that Woodlake residents say that Woodlake Corp. failed to maintain the dam and ...

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Do as the court writes, not as it says. That is perhaps the takeaway from the unanimous Oct. 18 state Court of Appeals ruling in Scoggin v. Scoggin, a child custody case that saw Onslow County District Court Judge William ...

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Scoggin v. Scoggin (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-343-16, 10 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Onslow County District Court (William Sutton Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though, at the end of a custody hearing, the trial court announced that it ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is fining General Motors $35 million for delays in recalling small cars with faulty ignition switches. The government also says Friday that GM will report safety issues faster in the future. The fine is ...

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Artful Color, Inc. v. Hale Though a judgment in this matter might clarify legal relations and provide relief from uncertainty, because the issue of the court’s personal jurisdiction over defendant is unclear and dismissal of this action would not deprive plaintiff of a forum as plaintiff has raised no exclusively federal claims, the court declines to exercise its jurisdiction over this declaratory judgment action.

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Rutherford Plantation, LLC v. Challenge Golf Group of the Carolinas, LLC Even though defendant failed to raise the anti-deficiency statute at the summary judgment stage and cited the wrong subsection of N.C. R. Civ. P. 59 in its motion to amend judgment, the trial court should have taken notice of the anti-deficiency statute, which cannot be waived, and denied plaintiff a deficiency judgment.

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Blythe v. Bell In the absence of an operating agreement, when LLC member Hickory Brands, Inc. assigned its interest in the LLC to other members, no consent was required and Hickory Brands was then no longer a member of the LLC.

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