The Business Court granted summary judgment on Plaintiff’s trade secrets claim yesterday in Edgewater Services, Inc. v. Epic Logistics, Inc., 2009 NCBC 20 (N.C. Super. Ct. August 11, 2009). It also dismissed Plaintiff’s claim for punitive damages.
Plaintiff Edgewater and Defendant Epic are third party logistics companies, arranging for transportation of freight for their
The managing member and president of an LLC could not be liable for tortious interference with contract for firing the Plaintff. "A party to a contract, including the party’s managing agent, cannot be liable for wrongful interference of the contract." The defendant was not an outsider to the contract, and therefore could not be liable
An appellate decision has to be really, really wrong before the same Court will decide that it shouldn’t be treated as the "law of the case." In fact, the wrongness has to be as overpowering as a very old and very dead fish, per the Fourth Circuit’s opinion today in TFWS, Inc. v. Franchot.
There weren’t any earthshaking decisions yesterday from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, but there are a couple of cases worth a quick mention, one on arbitration and one on discoverability in a medical malpractice case of a letter to a "medical review committee." There was also a copyright case yesterday from the Fourth Circuit
The Court partially granted an LLC member’s motion for an accounting, ordering the LLC to provide the member with periodic "(1) information regarding the status of the business and the financial condition of [the LLC] including a summary of all funds disbursed and spent and all revenue generated from 1 January 2009 to the present, and
The Court denied a motion for "alternative service of process" on a foreign defendant, ruling that the Plaintiff had not shown it had exhausted the traditional means of service available under Rule 4(j3) by attempting service through the means specified in the Hague Convention.
The Court further stated that if Plaintiff could not with due
Complaint asserting breach of fiduciary duty by securities broker fell within the Court’s mandatory jurisdiction over securities matters, as did issues regarding enforceability of arbitration provisions in brokerage agreement.
Opposition to Notice of Designation
.jpg)
Directors of corporations verging on insolvency can owe fiduciary duties to creditors under certain circumstances. Whether those duties were owed — and whether the claim for their breach had been released as a part of the corporation’s bankruptcy proceeding — were the main issues yesterday in Phillips and Jordan, Inc. v. Bostic, 2009 NCBC
The Business Court, relying on the Court of Appeals decision in White v. Thompson, dismissed an unfair and deceptive practices claim brought by an LLC member who claimed that another member and manager had usurped Company opportunities and converted Company assets. It held that there was no assertion that the defendant’s "actions had any
When law firms break up, litigation often follows. The case of Merritt, Flebotte, Wilson, Webb & Caruso, PLLC v. Hemmings, decided Tuesday by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, involved claims between lawyers of defamation and violation of a nondisparagement provision in a settlement agreement.
The Defendants had left the Plaintiff’s firm to start