I miscounted the number of Opinions in part one of this Newsletter about the Business Court’s June 2026 opinions. I said in the earlier Newsletter that there were eleven Opinions, but I miscounted. There were more, twelve. This Newsletter doesn’t clear the slate, because this Newsletter platform didn't provide me with enough room to write about all eight of the remaining. Instead, this edition contains six of the remaining eight Opinions. The next edition (June 2026 Part 3) will cover the remaining two.

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From my point of view, particularly interesting in this edition are Zhang v. CapitalNexus, LLC, 2026 NCBC 59 (Conrad, J.) in which future Chief Judge Conrad (effective August 1, 2026) politely criticizes the 500 paragraph “muddled” Complaint that he had to slog through; Covenant Clearinghouse LLC v. D.R. Horton, Inc., 2026 NCBC 56 (Houston, J.) in which Judge Houston complicates a dispute over a “recovery fee” in a real property Declaration, taking it from a two party dispute to a dispute that will require the addition of more than sixty parties; And once again the importance of timely dual filing in the Business Court and the county of origin of the case, in Overton Row Holdings, LLC v. CW Constr. & Dev., LLC, 2026 NCBC 49 (Houston, J.)(another dual filing mistake on which Judge Houston shows no mercy).

Coming next edition are the last two June 2026 Opinions: Dougherty v. Bojangles Rests., Inc., 2026 NCBC 60 (Earp, J.)(In which Judge Earp lays out a valuable roadmap for lawyers pursuing claims over a data breach); and finally Kadah v. Paladin Drones, Inc., 2026 NCBC 50 (Houston, J.), a follow-on to an Opinion I wrote about last month.

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