Mealey's ( May 24, 2021, 10:22 AM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge in North Carolina on May 12 denied a hotel franchisee’s motion for judgment on an architecture firm’s counterclaim for breach of an agreement to pay for design services, finding that emails between the parties from 2008 cannot be considered because they are not integral to or relied on by the firm in its counterclaim....