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WINDOW WORLD OF BATON ROUGE LLC v. WINDOW WORLD INC (2021)

Supreme Court of North Carolina.2021-06-11No. No. 436A19

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Opinion

¶ 1 This interlocutory appeal from the order and opinion entered on 16 August 2019 is affirmed per curiam.

¶ 2 Defendant-appellants’ appeal from the order and opinion entered on 19 December 2018 based on the claim that the net worth of an individual who owns and controls a business operating as a franchisee is necessary to apply the large franchisee exemption pursuant to 16 C.F.R. § 436.8(a)(5)(ii) is not properly before this Court, and it is hereby dismissed.

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AFFIRMED.

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FOOTNOTES

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.   Defendant-appellants did not present or discuss any issues in their brief pertaining to the order and opinion on Window World defendants’ motions to compel and motion to strike plaintiffs’ objections to third-party subpoenas entered on 26 September 2018 and the order and opinion on Window World defendants’ motion for reconsideration entered on 25 January 2019. Thus, defendant-appellants have abandoned all corresponding arguments. See N.C. R. App. P. 28(a) (“The scope of review on appeal is limited to issues so presented in the several briefs. Issues not presented and discussed in a partys brief are deemed abandoned.”). 2

.   The order and opinion of the North Carolina Business Court, Window World of Baton Rouge, LLC v. Window World, Inc., 2019 NCBC 53, 2019 WL 3995941, is available at https://www.nccourts.gov/assets/documents/opinions/2019_NCBC_53.pdf.

PER CURIAM.