A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data they seek, are engaged in a near-daily volley of attacks and defenses.
In a trio of cases brought against Gaston College, a community college in
Jeff MacHarg and Alexandra Hirsch
To secure a preliminary injunction, a party must present evidence of two things, and fast: (1) likelihood of success on the merits; and (2) irreparable harm. In this recent Order of Significance (denying a preliminary injunction), Judge Davis was able to skip over ‘success on the merits’ because he found
By Jeff MacHarg and Camryn Rohr.
Judge Conrad’s Final Judgment in Airtron, Inc. v. Bradley Allen Heinrich ends this years-long Chapter 75, trade secret case. No doubt, the plaintiff (Airtron) pushed this lawsuit to make a point: if you take our secrets, we will come after you, and we won’t stop until justice is done.
In a costly episode of Aaron Sorkin’s adage that “decisions are made by those who show up,” the majority shareholder in a pair of family-controlled oil and gas companies learned of about 850,000 reasons why attendance can be a virtue in corporate governance.
In Worley v. Ormond, 2024 NCBC 40, three siblings who inherited
Sometimes a discovery molehill turns into a mountain (of documents) quicker than you can type the word warehouse.
Back in January, in North Carolina ex rel. Stein v. EIDP, Inc., the State raised a discovery dispute regarding the defendants’ reluctance to search the files of additional custodians in a long-running litigation arising from alleged contamination
The road leading away from HCA Healthcare’s 2019 acquisition of the multi-campus Mission Health hospital system in Western North Carolina has been a bumpy ride. HCA has faced suit connected to the transaction alleging it exploited monopoly power – resulting in higher prices, lower quality care, and limited patient access. State and local politicians decried
As a matter of business hygiene, North Carolina’s records inspection statute is a bit of an information ATM. But the Business Court recently cautioned that a requester still has to press the right buttons.
In Extra Care, LLC v. Carolinas All. for Residential Excellence, LLC, 2024 NCBC 41, the Court weighed a dispute over
In a dispute about tax preparation businesses that one member of Compass Tax Services LLC was selling to the entity, precious little was for certain. Even the parties’ agreement lacked clarity about whether Compass Tax, or the other two members of Compass, were buying the businesses from the third member, and defendant, Rabindra Karki.
But
On June 27, 2024, the North Carolina Business Court announced several changes to the Court’s composition.
Chief Business Court Judge Louis A. Bledsoe, III announced his retirement effective January 1, 2025. Judge Bledsoe has served as a Business Court judge since 2014, and as Chief Judge since 2018.
Judge Michael L. Robinson was appointed Judge
A member seeking to dissolve an LLC which owns a mothballed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, didn’t have a “ghost of a chance” to close out a struggling, yet functional, company.
In McClure v. Ghost Town in the Sky, 2024 NCBC 33, the Business Court took to the dusty streets of a
