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Jay Heflin of the Washington Examiner highlights business owners’ concerns about potential legal liability linked to COVID-19. Business owners won’t rest easy if Congress shields companies from coronavirus-related lawsuits since…
That’s how attorney Margaret A. Little characterizes the likely outcome of a lawsuit brought by a group of state attorneys general against the pharmaceutical industry. In a recent post at the Law…
Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 467, Agriculture and Forestry Nuisance Remedies, on Friday. In his veto message, he noted, “Special protection for one industry opens the door to weakening…
More than 500 North Carolina plaintiffs are suing Smithfield Foods and other swine farmers for nuisance. In response to this litigation, Reps. Jimmy Dixon, David Lewis, and John Bell have…
Republicans took control over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011 and have held a majority in both houses since. In keeping with conservative ideals, many reforms were passed to…
The Washington Examiner highlights on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that favors common sense over the trial-lawyer lobby. For the Supreme Court to issue a unanimous opinion, legal minds as…
Check out the map associated with Chuck DeVore‘s latest contribution to The Federalist website, and one feature should leap out at you: North Carolina’s government is less trustworthy than those…
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes writes here about the debate over ObamaCare, including comments being made by its defenders as the reality of the individual mandate and the exchanges is…
In a win for personal responsibility, the NC Senate has voted overwhelmingly for the “Commonsense Consumption Act,” which would prevent people from suing food manufacturers or sellers because they claim…
Tevi Troy devotes a Wall Street Journal column to a U.S. Supreme Court case involving something known as the “pre-emption doctrine” in connection with the Federal Food and Drug Administration.…
Last year, the General Assembly passed medical malpractice reform. The reform capped non-economic damages at $500,000 and put in place a higher standard for proving malpractice. In this Triangle Business…
John Steele Gordon offered a Hillsdale College audience earlier this year some economic history lessons, as captured in the latest Imprimis. One of those lessons helps explains a key problem…