Today’s post is about North Carolina’s common-law tort of unfair competition. We’ve talked about the tort before, and mentioned her a time or two in passing. But often, we just remember unfair competition as “the child of confusion,” the stepsister of trademark infringement, and the oft-forgotten cousin of section 75-1.1. […]
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 […]
This post studies an interesting question in competition law: can a local government be sued for money damages based on a federal antitrust violation? The answer is “no,” according to a recent decision from a federal court in Charlotte. Benitez v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority is one of several high-profile antitrust cases […]
In a recent blog post, we discussed a new antitrust decision from the North Carolina Business Court that involves healthcare providers and health insurers. In that post, we examined the significance of that opinion to indirect-purchaser standing under North Carolina antitrust law. Judge Michael Robinson’s decision in Christopher DiCesare, et […]