/northcarolina?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: North Carolina Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:59:42 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372307?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372307 A North Carolina Business Court judge declined to allow a private equity investor to voluntarily dismiss its derivative lawsuit against the fund's asset manager and majority owner and move the case to Delaware, finding that the shareholder failed to plead facts demonstrating a legitimate derivative claim under Delaware law. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:58:11 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371280 In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:46:36 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2370598?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2370598 A North Carolina man who pled guilty to firearms charges after police found a weapon in his vehicle after smelling cannabis is urging the state's Supreme Court to find that the odor alone is not enough to establish probable cause, saying the current state of the law means anyone carrying state-legal hemp effectively gives up their Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:59:50 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372533?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372533 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into how law firms are winning the succession game, and the Trump administration's efforts to cut red tape for data center projects. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:16:01 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372357?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372357 The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court order granting class certification to a group of American cities and others that are accusing eight large banks of inflating interest rates on debt securities known as variable rate demand obligations, saying the district court applied the correct legal standard in granting certification. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:26:14 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372304?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372304 The First Circuit on Friday seemed inclined to say that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens if they were born on U.S. soil, citing both the 14th Amendment and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and pushing back on an argument by President Donald Trump's administration. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:21:03 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372402?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372402 The Fourth Circuit on Friday restored a federal grand jury indictment against a driver who fled police in Richmond, Virginia, finding a district court overstepped in blaming purported racial bias by the Richmond Police Department for the otherwise justifiable traffic stop. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:20:35 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372508?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372508 An Arizona federal court was right to deny a request by tax services firms to stop the IRS from issuing batch denials of thousands of pandemic-era worker credit claims, the U.S. told the Ninth Circuit, defending the agency's system for handling problems administering the tax credit. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:40:38 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372314?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372314 A property investment company can raise nearly none of its claims against its insurer for hailstorm damage from 2019 and 2023, a North Carolina federal court ruled, finding that because claims concerning the 2019 storm are time-barred, those corresponding documents can't support much of the 2023 claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:30:35 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372333?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372333 An intellectual property lawyer in North Carolina told the state's top court that his ex-wife isn't entitled to half the value of his law firm in their divorce, arguing that whatever he earns from the firm's goodwill in the future can't be divvied up as part of the marital estate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:33 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371390 The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that critics say hampers competition. Here are five North Carolina bills from the year's first half that saw the governor's stamp of approval or remain up for debate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:32:46 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2372318?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2372318 The Fourth Circuit Friday found Georgia-Pacific asbestos unit Bestwall can stay in Chapter 11, saying a debtor's financial status has no bearing on whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction over its case. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:18:34 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371743?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371743 An Asheville brewery has whittled down a live music operator's lawsuit over their sunk partnership to form an entertainment venue after a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled the pair had no fiduciary relationship. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:47:14 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371112?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371112 CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to settle its multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a North Carolina sand and gravel mine over a 2018 derailment during Hurricane Florence that destroyed its locomotives, ending the litigation just one week before trial was set to begin. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:02:29 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371770?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371770 A North Carolina federal judge denied the Internal Revenue Service's renewed attempt to dismiss a tax refund suit for lack of jurisdiction, saying the repeated motions to drop the case would prevent the district court from proceeding to the discovery phase in the litigation. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:40:50 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371647 A homebuyer has accused a Raleigh, North Carolina, brokerage of taking kickbacks to refer borrowers exclusively to mortgage origination company CrossCountry Mortgage under a secret arrangement by executives of the two businesses, according to a complaint filed in federal court. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:26:29 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371395?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371395 A unanimous Fourth Circuit panel has affirmed a South Carolina federal judge's order requiring several financial firms to pay more than $63,000 in legal fees for improperly trying to remove a securities class action to federal court for a second time, but said they don't have to pay additional fees to cover the cost of the appeal. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:42:16 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371705?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371705 A Honeywell International Inc. former vice president and general counsel accused the Charlotte-based conglomerate of age discrimination, telling a North Carolina federal court that she was fired for turning 55. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:59:06 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2371867?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2371867 A North Carolina business court judge seemed leery Thursday of forcing former Barings' employees to fork over their personal emails and text messages as part of a deposition notice, suggesting Barings was trying to bypass U.K. law to get information from a foreign witness in its suit alleging former executives conducted a "corporate raid" to start a competing credit platform.