The plaintiff-employers allege that, after she learned she was being laid off, the defendant (now former) employee took plaintiffs’ trade secrets – including some in the form of hard copies – to entice employment offers and financial rewards from plaintiffs’ ...

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The defendant-property owners’ association (POA) sent the plaintiff-property owners monthly statements and statements concerning a future lien for failure to pay the amounts due. Plaintiffs contend these statements were “coercive and threatening.” Yet, the POA has been delegated authority to ...

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When defendant realized the brakes had failed on the car she was driving, she bypassed a couple of places into which she could have turned because they didn’t seem safe. She turned into the parking lot of a convenience store ...

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At the motion-to-dismiss stage, plaintiff has stated a claim under Woodson v. Rowland, 329 N.C. 330, 407 S.E.2d 222 (1991), by alleging that the defendant-employer “knew working under heavy loads without proper support or using proper equipment was certain to ...

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Defendants argue that plaintiff, as an officer of the defendant-agency, breached his fiduciary duty to the agency by issuing false certificates of insurance (COIs). However, plaintiff explains that he issued the false COIs in what he believed was the best ...

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We affirm the Business Court’s rulings for the reasons stated in its decisions dated 10 August 2015 (As the administrator of a fund that was operating as a Ponzi scheme, defendant SS&C Fund Administration Services, LLC, had a duty to ...

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The plaintiff-prisoner’s cause of action arose in 2015. In 2018, the plaintiff-prisoner filed a federal action against the defendant-department’s employees in their official capacities. The federal action did not toll the three-year statute of limitations for plaintiff’s claim under North ...

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Plaintiff alleges that a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) order was mistakenly placed in the medical records of plaintiff’s decedent, leading the defendant-hospital’s staff to allow the decedent to die without intervention when he suffered a cardiopulmonary episode while in the ...

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Where (1) multiple officers saw that plaintiff’s decedent, Keith Scott, was armed as he sat in his SUV in an apartment complex parking lot; (2) Scott ignored an officer’s commands to put his hands up as officers approached his SUV; ...

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In a case of first impression, we consider the duty of a defendant-hotel to respond to a guest’s room upon receiving noise complaints indicating that the guest was potentially in need of aid or protection. The guest staying immediately below ...

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