This post looks at a potentially overlooked roadblock in proving a violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1: the requirement that the claimant have standing to sue. You might think of standing as an exclusively federal-court concept, but North Carolina law has its own standing requirement. Indeed, we’ve noted at […]
We wrote last year about an interesting data-breach lawsuit in federal court in Chicago involving internet-connected toys. The case, called In re VTech Data Breach Litigation, arose after hackers stole personal information that parents supplied when they registered for online accounts with the toy manufacturer, called VTech Electronics. The […]
We have previously explored the application of the economic-loss rule to claims for violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. As we have observed, different courts have taken different approaches when assessing the rule’s application, depending on the circumstances of the case. In one of our posts, we discussed two […]
Disputes among business owners can be ugly. That ugliness lends itself to accusations of unfairness and deception. Maybe for this reason, business owners engaged in fisticuffs turn to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1 for relief. It’s hard to blame them. The statute declares unlawful “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in […]