Legal Question in Civil Litigation in North Carolina

Suing a non-profit

I was doing web development for a non-profit and was subversively ''fired'' and am my wages are being withheld. They are trying to claim that I kept my work hostage when all my passwords were being changed and I didn't know what was going on. I never really met my employers, all communications where through emails, so I'm having trouble figuring out how to go about suing them.


Asked on 5/03/09, 11:09 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

John Kirby Law Offices of John M. Kirby

Re: Suing a non-profit

This question appears to be more of a technology question, rather than a legal question. If you know the name of the non-profit, then you should be able to track them down (assuming they have properly filed their corporate paperwork) by looking at e.g. the secretary of state's website. It is hard to imagine that you could have done much work in web development without knowing the identity of the company, but if absolutely necessary, you could probably also track them down through an IP address (in e.g. an e-mail), but this may get more complicated. It may also be possible that the web development was being performed by a third party (i.e. a company hired by the non-profit), in which case your claim is probably against this third party (and not against the non-profit). You may want to do some technological and public-records research, and consult with an attorney with more information. The fact that the company is "non-profit" is probably of little or no relevance.

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Answered on 5/03/09, 1:38 pm


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