A few years ago, I wrote a post discussing whether violations of North Carolina’s computer trespass statute or the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) could be violations of section 75-1.1 that would result in treble damages and a potential award of attorneys’ fees. At that time, I had […]
Today’s post examines two recent decisions from the North Carolina Business Court, Vanguard Pai Lung, LLC v. Moody and Langley v. Autocraft, Inc. These decisions implicate two related exemptions from section 75-1.1 liability for intra-enterprise operations and conduct occurring in the employer-employee relationship. The intra-enterprise exemption, rooted in the statute’s […]
Section 75-1.1 claims involving out-of-state conduct frequently face significant hurdles. A claimant must show a substantial in-state injury for section 75-1.1 to apply. (See here and here.) Choice of law rules can also bar such claims. Today’s post examines two recent decisions (here and here) applying the choice-of-law rules governing […]
While we often write about section 75-1.1 of North Carolina’s General Statutes on this blog, today’s post examines another statute contained in Chapter 75: the Abusive Patent Assertions Act. First, we’ll take a brief look at the Act. Next, we’ll examine the first (and based on our research, the only) […]
