https://www.law360.com/northcarolina?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: North Carolina Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 21:57:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332920?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332920 A $4.1 million settlement between Truist Financial Corp. and a proposed class of cellphone users who say they got unwanted robocalls from the bank has received a North Carolina federal judge's initial green light. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:26:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332760?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332760 A panel of insurance experts stressed in front of a U.S. Senate committee Thursday the importance of mitigation efforts, such as strengthening building codes and hardening homes, as the experts discussed how prices in the property insurance market have soared because of recent natural disasters across the country. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:59:04 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332720 U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis and Chris Coons on Thursday brought back two significant patent reform bills from last term that overall aim to make invalidating patents more difficult. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:22:05 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2333027?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2333027 The Fourth Circuit has voted to initially hear as a full court the government's challenge to an order blocking a probe of the Social Security Administration and keep the block in place, with a majority differentiating a similar case it recently left to a three-member panel sans injunction. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:58:39 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2333163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2333163 A North Carolina trade executive's latest trip to the Second Circuit in his quest to win damages for alleged hacking by a private investigator on Dechert LLP's behalf should end like the others, with a dismissal, defense counsel argued Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:27:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332914?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332914 The former executive sous chef at a resort restaurant in Flat Rock, North Carolina, claims in a lawsuit that he was terminated for having gender dysphoria and for requesting time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act to recover from gender reassignment surgery. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:38:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332665?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332665 A coalition of states urged the First Circuit to reinstate a ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting $30 million in fair housing grants, saying the federal government failed to consider the impact this decision would have on the groups' operations. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:06:34 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332903?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332903 A vaping trade group and others are aiming to block a North Carolina law to regulate the sale of electronic cigarettes by arguing it is preempted by federal law, in a new suit filed in federal court. Thu, 01 May 2025 12:54:01 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332483?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332483 The Fourth Circuit found no error in a former cryptocurrency executive's conviction for fraud and conspiracy related to his time working at a foreign currency and cryptocurrency trading investment firm that the panel said was actually just a Ponzi scheme that never made any trades. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:26:36 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332478 The full Fourth Circuit was of many minds Wednesday morning as it ruled to co-sign the appellate court's previous finding upholding the use of a so-called geofence warrant to pinpoint a man's location in order to bring robbery charges against him. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:39:13 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331748?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331748 A North Carolina chapter of the NAACP wants to intervene in public water suppliers' forever chemical pollution lawsuit against Chemours and a Corteva subsidiary, saying the information the companies want to conceal should remain available. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:12:31 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332347?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332347 The U.S. Army is fighting an appeal by a Nebraska tribe to undo an order denying the repatriation of two of its children buried at a Pennsylvania boarding school cemetery, telling the Fourth Circuit that the lawsuit fails to allege facts under a law designed to protect Indigenous burial sites. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:08:25 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332507 Honeywell has dropped its lawsuit accusing a sourcing company of making up quality concerns to bail on a contract for medical-grade gloves, according to a notice filed in the North Carolina Business Court. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:29:59 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331863?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331863 A South Carolina federal judge on Tuesday ordered parties in a proposed class action over a 2024 cyberattack impacting the employees of law firm Riley Pope & Laney LLC's clients to conduct mediation ahead of trial — one day after the firm asked the court to toss the case, claiming the plaintiff has not alleged any actual misuse of his personal information. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:15:55 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331734?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331734 A North Carolina federal judge let an IHOP franchisee escape the bulk of a fired waitress's suit claiming she was propositioned for sex by a male manager and fired for complaining about it, ruling she had failed to put forward any corroboration about the alleged harassment to keep her claims in court. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:29:33 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331717?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2331717 Facing a civil rights class action filed by North Carolina residents who say the state's new digital court system subjected them to wrongful arrests and extended jail time, the software provider that licensed the program told a federal court that it cannot be held responsible for the way its product is used because it is merely a vendor. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:14:40 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332369?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332369 An executive departing a Boston contract research lab allegedly downloaded confidential and proprietary documents before he left to join a competing business in a move that breached his noncompete contract, according to a trade secrets lawsuit filed Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:58:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332549?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2332549 North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park is stepping down following a five-year run and unsuccessful foray onto the Fourth Circuit bench, leaving the door open for Deputy Solicitor General Nick Brod to take his place, the state attorney general's office announced Wednesday. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:49:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2329525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/northcarolina/articles/2329525 Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.