Warm weather, sandy beaches, sunsets … so many visions of idyllic summer vacations were seemingly washed away in the COVID-19 wave of 2020. However, with distancing, quarantine, and other similar restrictions now being loosened in several states, the thought of ...
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A land investment company can move forward with a lawsuit against an Orange County mining company that may have exaggerated the dangerous effects that its blasting would have on a proposed subdivision nearby, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ...
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Read More »Even though the parties had discussed two different positions for the plaintiff-real estate agent, their testimony – that plaintiff wanted to be paid her full 1.25 percent commission “regardless of her status” with the defendant-company – was sufficient to support ...
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A dissolved Delaware corporation did not need a certificate of authority to transact business in North Carolina in order to petition for a partition of its real estate here, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled. The court reversed a 2017 ...
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A pervasive scam that can victimize lawyers, homeowners and real estate professionals is showing no signs of letting up in southeast states. State bars and legal insurance officials are urging lawyers in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to take ...
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Wriggling out of a release agreement often requires MacGyver-esque legal skills. But businessman James Shaw has managed the feat by alleging that his former partner kept him in the dark about a six-figure payday. Shaw and Raymond Gee were equal ...
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Read More »Andon LLC v. City of Newport News, Va. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-030-16, 14 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 14-2358, Feb. 9, 2016; USDC at Newport News, Va. (Doumar, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A worship group that leased a commercial property to ...
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Read More »High Point Bank & Trust Co. v. Highmark Properties, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-0915, 13 pp.) (Barbara Jackson, J.) (Sam Ervin IV, J., not participating) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (Ronald Spivey & Stuart Albright, JJ.) On discretionary review ...
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Read More »WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — An Atlanta-based development group has announced plans to build in an area near BB&T Ballpark in Winston-Salem with a hotel, almost 600 luxury apartments and 300,000 square feet of retail space. The Winston-Salem Journal (http://bit.ly/1AJUodn ) reports ...
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A real estate scam that has apparently been making its way through email inboxes across the country for some time now has begun targeting lawyers in North Carolina, according to the North Carolina State Bar. Peter Bolac, trust account compliance ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
