A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has vacated most of a lower-court order and ruled that two fired Chapel Hill sanitation workers can continue their wrongful-discharge lawsuit against the town. The two black workers contend Chapel Hill retaliated against them for filing race discrimination grievances.
Among the other new opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court’s ruling against a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school teacher who’s fighting her 2011 dismissal from Bailey Middle School for slapping a verbally abusive student.
- A unanimous three-judge panel has reversed a ruling that would have awarded damages to a former Caswell County prison inmate injured in a 2006 prison fight.
- A unanimous three-judge panel has vacated a lower-court order and called for findings of fact in a dispute involving the City of Durham and a former transit administrator fired in 2011.
- A unanimous three-judge panel has affirmed a lower-court ruling favoring the State Health Plan in its efforts to recover money paid to a car accident victim who later won a lawsuit settlement from the driver who caused the accident.
- A unanimous three-judge panel has affirmed a lower-court ruling favoring the state in a dispute with a former member of the N.C. National Guard who’s suing for retirement benefits.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower-court ruling favoring Durham County in a dispute involving breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation.
