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 […]
As we have explored before, a common scam known as “W-2 phishing” can put companies in the crosshairs for data-breach lawsuits brought by their employees. In honor of Tax Day, today’s post examines an interesting recent decision from a North Carolina federal court in one of these cases. In that […]
As we have previously explored, North Carolina’s choice-of-law rule for multi-state unfair and deceptive trade practice cases remains unsettled. Some courts have applied a “most significant relationship” test while others have applied a “place of injury” or “lex loci” test to assess which state’s law to apply. The North Carolina […]
Today, we look at another decision about the line that divides ordinary contract claims from claims that allege “substantial aggravating circumstances” relating to a breach. The latter category of claims violate N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. (Speaking of which, I recently presented a CLE on this topic; here is a […]