Last Thursday, former UNC football player Michael McAdoo filed a putative class action against UNC-Chapel Hill. This federal complaint has already received extensive publicity. The publicity, though, has overlooked the surprising lead claim in the complaint—a claim for unfair and deceptive practices under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. McAdoo alleges that when […]
As baseball fans know, any trip to the ballpark requires a good hot dog. And one hot dog soars above the rest: the all-beef kosher hot dog. A Minnesota judge was probably enjoying fond October baseball memories when he recently wrote a notable decision in a putative class action that […]
The Chief Justice of the United States recently criticized modern law reviews with these memorable words: “Pick up a copy of any law review that you see. The first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria or something, […]
A breach of contract alone does not violate N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. If a breach is accompanied by “substantial aggravating circumstances,” however, the breach does violate section 75-1.1—and the plaintiff’s contract damages are multiplied by three. Despite these high stakes, courts have given almost no explicit guidance on what counts […]