/northcarolina?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: North Carolina Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:26:13 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2379105?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2379105 Chinese internet behemoth ByteDance Inc. and its social media subsidiary TikTok Inc. can be sued in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina's business court ruled Tuesday, preserving a lawsuit that accuses the companies of exploiting minors through addictive app design. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:05:42 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2379255?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2379255 The North Carolina state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a state law capping compensatory damages in certain medical malpractice lawsuits at $500,000 is constitutional, handing a defeat to a woman seeking to recoup her full $7.5 million jury verdict stemming from the loss of her unborn baby. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:53:23 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378701?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378701 A man appealing his conviction for unlawful firearm possession told North Carolina's highest court this week that state law enforcement entities were attempting to erode the separation of powers by inserting themselves into his case. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:12:10 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2379149?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2379149 The Fourth Circuit has declined Vivint Smart Home Inc.'s requests to rethink its decision affirming a $190 million verdict in a case accusing the company of deceiving customers of a rival home security business. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:52:38 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2379135?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2379135 A North Carolina bankruptcy attorney is facing murder charges after police said he shot and killed a 43-year-old man in a small town in the mountains over the weekend, court records show. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:48:12 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2379057?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2379057 Home improvement giant Lowe's, advised by Freshfields LLP, on Wednesday unveiled plans to buy private equity-backed Foundation Building Materials, led by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, in an $8.8 billion deal meant to create a "premier" business to better serve Lowe's home improvement for professionals platform. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:38:06 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378835?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378835 An expert witness turned the tables on the attorney questioning her Tuesday during a former public housing authority coordinator's hostile work environment and retaliation trial in North Carolina after defense counsel questioned how she could accurately opine on the authority's operations without having seen key documents, saying it wasn't because she didn't ask for them. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:26:51 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378412?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378412 A North Carolina federal judge partially sustained Bank of America's objections to a magistrate judge's recommendation allowing a proposed class action over alleged fraud on the peer-to-peer payment service Zelle to proceed, finding that the suit fails to plausibly plead claims under any of the asserted state consumer protection statutes. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:09:26 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378629?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378629 A group of nonprofits and a union added claims to their suit in Maryland federal court aiming to stop the Trump administration from dismantling AmeriCorps, accusing the Office of Management and Budget of unlawfully withholding millions of dollars appropriated by Congress for grant programs. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:19:39 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378634?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378634 The Fourth Circuit has ordered a lower court to conclusively determine whether a Maryland woman's rights were violated after prosecutors retried her for murder using information they gathered from her successful ineffective assistance of counsel motion during the first trial. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:45:06 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378724?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378724 The U.S. Department of Justice petitioned the full Fourth Circuit to rehear a June panel decision reviving a free speech suit from an immigration judges union, saying it flouts U.S. Supreme Court precedent and implements a novel legal requirement. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:40:00 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378637?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378637 Facing a third preliminary injunction bid from Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing team, private stock car company NASCAR told a North Carolina federal court that the team still fails to show irreparable harm and is unlikely to prevail at trial. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:38:42 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2376960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2376960 After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:10:38 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378604?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378604 A North Carolina federal judge pushed into arbitration a quality control worker's overtime suit against a clean energy manufacturing company, ruling that the arbitration agreement the company presented to him while he was a putative member in a related case is valid. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:22:09 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378153?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378153 A split Fourth Circuit on Monday revived a West Virginia woman's lawsuit alleging that a Union Carbide Corp.- and Covestro LLC-owned plant exposed nearby residents to ethylene oxide, finding that a lower court erred in siding with the companies. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:43:48 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378130?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378130 A North Carolina federal judge has ordered a county sheriff's office to turn over the names of officers involved in a midnight raid on a home they incorrectly believed was harboring a suspected carjacker. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:41:51 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378374?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378374 A New Jersey federal judge tossed a proposed class action Monday alleging Honeywell violated federal benefits law by putting 401(k) forfeitures toward employer-side contribution obligations instead of defraying administrative expenses, finding an ex-worker hadn't backed up claims the spending breached fiduciary duties or caused prohibited transactions. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:54:31 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378099 Life sciences data company IQVIA Inc. has settled a suit that alleged data rival Veeva Systems Inc. used "crowdsourcing" to misappropriate trade secrets, the two companies said Monday. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:03:46 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2377699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2377699 A widow contending that she can't be forced into arbitration over who owns assets of her late husband's business venture was granted a pretrial win after a North Carolina business court judge found "no competent evidence" for an agreement that would force her to do so. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:44:14 +0000 /northcarolina/articles/2378322?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /northcarolina/articles/2378322 Moore & Van Allen PLLC has asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a malpractice suit accusing it of mishandling some residents' employee stock ownership trust, claiming that the suit brought against the North Carolina-based firm is being litigated in the wrong venue.