Last year, Matt Sawchak spoke on section 75-1.1 at a CLE program sponsored by the Antitrust and Complex Business Disputes Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. I’ve attached my slides here.
In the presentation, he addressed three perennial unsettled topics under section 75-1.1:
- the meaning of unfairness (as compared with deception),
- per se violations, where a violation of another source of law—even one that has no private right of action—is treated as a violation of section 75-1.1, and
- choice of law in unfair-trade-practices cases.
The first section of the presentation summarizes Kip Nelson’s and my North Carolina Law Review article on the unfairness doctrine. Here’s a link to that article.
Note especially slides 36-39, where I address a murky subject: when section 75-1.1 claims can be barred for having extraterritorial effects. I’ll address this subject in a future post.
The Lay of the Land: Understanding Quahog Management in Rhode Islandriseagrant
The Lay of the Land: Understanding Quahog Management in Rhode Island presented by Jeff Mercer of the RI DEM at May 19th, 2014 Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan Stakeholder meeting
Last year, Matt Sawchak spoke on section 75-1.1 at a CLE program sponsored by the Antitrust and Complex Business Disputes Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. I’ve attached my slides here.
In the presentation, he addressed three perennial unsettled topics under section 75-1.1:
- the meaning of unfairness (as compared with deception),
- per se violations, where a violation of another source of law—even one that has no private right of action—is treated as a violation of section 75-1.1, and
- choice of law in unfair-trade-practices cases.
The first section of the presentation summarizes Kip Nelson’s and my North Carolina Law Review article on the unfairness doctrine. Here’s a link to that article.
Note especially slides 36-39, where I address a murky subject: when section 75-1.1 claims can be barred for having extraterritorial effects. I’ll address this subject in a future post.
The Lay of the Land: Understanding Quahog Management in Rhode Islandriseagrant
The Lay of the Land: Understanding Quahog Management in Rhode Island presented by Jeff Mercer of the RI DEM at May 19th, 2014 Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan Stakeholder meeting
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The document discusses a social network analysis of the American law professoriate. It aims to understand why certain legal ideas and paradigms succeed over others by examining the social factors that influence the spread of ideas. The analysis builds a graph-theoretic representation of over 7,000 law professors and 184 law schools, then uses measures like hub score to rank institutions based on their connections and influence within the network. It finds that a small number of elite schools have disproportionate influence in shaping legal thought due to their highly connected positions.
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Sharing economy principles and business models present many new and interesting challenges to local, state and national regulatory schemes related to health, safety, labor, taxes, and many others.
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The talk is nationwide in scope, but it includes plenty of North Carolina examples. In the talk, I lay out the general shape of the law on unfair trade practices, including some infamous recent cases from California and New Jersey.
See especially slides 6-14, where I describe how section 75-1.1 fits into the range of similar statutes nationwide.
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