One week from today, the North Carolina Servicemembers Civil Relief Act will go into effect. When it does, North Carolina will add a new per se theory of section 75-1.1 liability. The new law, which will be codified in Chapter 127B of the General Statutes (“Military Affairs”), serves two purposes. […]
Today’s post concerns a recent decision about the scope of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-45.4, the statute that controls which cases the North Carolina Business Court can hear. This issue and the decision—called UNOX, Inc. v. Conway—are important for at least two reasons. For one, and stating the obvious, the […]
If you represent a plaintiff in a claim for unfair trade practices, you want the court to get to the heart of your claim. You’ve got a fact pattern, after all, that shows that someone was mistreated. The story’s different for defense counsel. You might have a winning argument on the merits—what sounds unfair is […]
This post concerns an intriguing question of civil procedure. We wrote a few years ago about whether the trebling feature in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-16 can be used in calculating the minimum amount in controversy required to designate a case to the North Carolina Business Court. We look in […]