Title: Red Valve, Inc. v. Titan Valve, Inc
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 22A20
State: north-carolina
Issuer: north-carolina Supreme Court
Date: March 12, 2021

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 
2021-NCSC-17 
No. 22A20 
Filed 12 March 2021 
RED VALVE, INC., and HILLENBRAND, INC. 
 
 
v. 
TITAN VALVE, INC., BEN PAYNE, FABIAN AEDO ORTIZ, and JOHN DOES 1–
10 
 
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-27(a)(3) from an order and opinion on 
plaintiffs’ verified motion for order to show cause and second motion for sanctions and 
contempt entered on 3 September 2019 and an order and opinion on plaintiffs’ 
petition for reasonable expenses resulting from plaintiffs’ second motion for sanctions 
entered on 5 September 2019 by Judge Louis A. Bledsoe III, Chief Special Superior 
Court Judge for Complex Business Cases, in Superior Court, Mecklenburg County, 
after the case was designated a mandatory complex business case by the Chief Justice 
pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-45.4(a). Heard in the Supreme Court on 16 February 2021. 
 
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, by Benjamin S. Chesson, David N. 
Allen, and Anna C. Majestro, for plaintiff-appellees. 
 
Bell, Davis & Pitt, PA., by Joshua B. Durham and Edward B. Davis, for 
defendant-appellants. 
 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
RED VALVE, INC. V. TITAN VALVE, INC. 
2021-NCSC-17 
Opinion of the Court 
 
 
 
AFFIRMED.1 
                                            
1 The order and opinion of the North Carolina Business Court entered on 3 September 
2019, 
2019 
NCBC 
56, 
is 
available 
at 
https://www.nccourts.gov/assets/documents/opinions/2019_NCBC_56.pdf, and the order and 
opinion of the North Carolina Business Court entered on 5 September 2019, 2019 NCBC 57, 
is available at https://www.nccourts.gov/assets/documents/opinions/2019_NCBC_57.pdf.