Mealey's ( August 25, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — A split North Carolina Supreme Court on Aug. 22 vacated class certification in a long-running case by a consumer who alleges that an illegal sales promotion under North Carolina law was used when he purchased his home water treatment system; the majority ruled that while consumers from both North and South Carolina were included in the class, the claims by the residents of South Carolina would arise under that state’s law where inducement is an element, unlike in North Carolina, and inducement creates “individualized fact questions.”...