By the time you read this post, I will have begun my service as the Solicitor General of North Carolina. I’m excited to have this chance to work with Attorney General Stein and to serve the people of my adopted state. As part of my transition, I’m leaving What’s Fair […]
In the fall of 2015, we wrote about a case between two sports agents. The suit concerned the decision by Robert Quinn, a former football standout at the University of North Carolina, to switch agents. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina entered summary judgment against the spurned […]
When a company investigates potential trademark infringement, what tactics can the company use without the investigation running afoul of North Carolina’s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act? The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently explored this question in Exclaim Marketing, LLC v. DirecTV, LLC. Tracking down a potential infringer DirecTV […]
As we have discussed before, courts in North Carolina have not agreed on how the economic-loss rule applies, if at all, to claims under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. Two recent decisions by the North Carolina Court of Appeals—ten days apart—illustrate the varying approaches to this issue. Applying the economic-loss […]