There’s no expression when speaking of football players to recognize a performance that hits three exceptional marks (like a hat trick in hockey or a triple double in basketball or the triple crown in baseball). 

Maybe there should be, because Jeff Bostic, who played twelve years in the NFL for the Washington Redskins and on three Super Bowl winning teams, pulled off an extraordinary triple victory yesterday in the Business Court.  He got summary judgment in three cases in which he was the Defendant: Yates Constr. Co. v. Bostic

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The Business Court ruled today in Crowder Construction Co. v. City of Charlotte, a construction law case, that North Carolina does not recognize the "cardinal change doctrine."  It also dismissed a claim that a project consultant had tortiously interfered with the contract between the general contractor and the City by rejecting the general contractor’s claims for payment.

A "cardinal change" is a change to a government contract which "fundamentally alters the contractual undertaking of the contractor."  It is a change which "cannot be redressed within the contract

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