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The bitter end: Court draws roadmap for business divorces.
The North Carolina Supreme Court this week established a test for judges asked to order a business divorce of “deadlocked” partners in LLCs.

W. Cory Reiss
Jan 312 min read
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PowerPoint to (some of) the people! Private school contract permits expulsion for parents pushing anti-woke agenda.
The Court confirmed that parents trying to control what a private school teaches are subject to the same contractual rules as everyone else.

W. Cory Reiss
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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Exploding bathroom exposes tenants' duty to report.
Slumlords of North Carolina, this one’s for you. The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that landlords have no duty under state...

W. Cory Reiss
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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Casino Real: Minor earnest money bet raises stakes of real estate misdeals.
Going first is gambling. That’s why a legal question can linger in plain sight for years before someone decides to test it. The...

W. Cory Reiss
Jun 21, 20223 min read
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A plea against the fee: When your best argument is for ‘mercy,’ it may be too late.
A jury had hit three defendants with $65,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, and now their lawyer was asking a judge not to award...

W. Cory Reiss
Nov 29, 20212 min read
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For sale: three bedrooms, two baths, and the builder's wiggle room.
Third-party home buyer “warranties” for new homes may induce buyers to give up stronger legal rights to correct construction defects.

W. Cory Reiss
Nov 3, 20202 min read
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The “L” word your building contractor can’t resist has a catch.
The risk is that a homeowner fights at the peril of paying both the contractor’s fees and her own. But the threat may be double-edged.

W. Cory Reiss
Aug 3, 20202 min read
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Blinded by the light: How insurance carriers learn the virtue of good faith.
Where good faith disagreement ends and bad faith refusal to settle begins can be a very tricky line to identify.

W. Cory Reiss
May 26, 20202 min read
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The grass is always greener when it's artificial turf.
Just take a moment to marvel at the amounts spent by a well-heeled HOA to hold at bay the evils of artificial turf.

W. Cory Reiss
Apr 24, 20203 min read
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Nursing home case may defuse some contract landmines.
Arbitration agreements require parties to avoid court and take their dispute before a private panel or single arbitrator.

W. Cory Reiss
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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