Earlier this year, we wrote about two cases that considered whether an assignee of insurance proceeds could maintain a section 75-1.1 claim against insurers. The North Carolina Business Court found that such an assignee could maintain the claim in Brakebush Brothers. The Fourth Circuit reached the opposite conclusion in Skyline […]
While we often write about section 75-1.1 of North Carolina’s General Statutes on this blog, today’s post examines another statute contained in Chapter 75: the Abusive Patent Assertions Act. First, we’ll take a brief look at the Act. Next, we’ll examine the first (and based on our research, the only) […]
The North Carolina Business Court is seeking qualified candidates interested in serving both the Winston-Salem and Greensboro Business Court locations as a shared Judicial Research Assistant (Law Clerk) responsible for evaluating, administering, and managing cases involving commercial matters that are designated and assigned to the Court. This is a regular, full-time […]
For St. Patrick’s Day, my kids always make elaborate leprechaun traps to try and catch the leprechaun. If they catch him, they get to keep his pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. Each year the traps get more elaborate, but each year we fail to catch the […]
