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5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Randi Love

General Dynamics Corp. and other shipbuilders must face a suit alleging they wouldn’t recruit employees from one another in a “no poach” agreement, after the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal Friday. In a 2-1 opinion, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said that the “fraudulent concealment” doctrine is designed to prevent conspirators accused of trying to avoid detection from using the four-year statute of limitations.

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Randi Love

Fraudulent concealment doctrine four-year limit can be pausedMajority of appeals courts use ‘affirmative acts’ standardGeneral Dynamics Corp. and other shipbuilders must face a suit alleging they wouldn’t recruit employees from one another in a “no poach” agreement, after the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal Friday.

6 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Randi Love

The Fourth Circuit grilled lawyers Friday for two racing teams, including one owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, over an injunction that allows them to compete as chartered teams in the 2025 NASCAR season. A three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said during oral argument that a chartered team agreement excluding certain standard releases, which a district court ordered in December 2024, seemed to contradict appellate court precedent.

6 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Randi Love |Rob Tricchinelli

The Fourth Circuit grilled lawyers Friday for two racing teams, including one owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, over an injunction that allows them to compete as chartered teams in the 2025 NASCAR season. A three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said during oral argument that a chartered team agreement excluding certain standard releases, which a district court ordered in December 2024, seemed to contradict appellate court precedent.

6 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Randi Love

The Fourth Circuit pressed a Georgia-Pacific LLC unit and people with asbestos-related claims on whether a Chapter 11 debtor can be solvent, noting that a dispute over a bankruptcy court’s subject matter jurisdiction has never come up in this context since the law was initially ratified.