Neither Fayetteville nor the company that installed one of the city’s red-light cameras bears any legal responsibility in a death caused when a drunk driver hit a utility pole in 2007, causing the camera to fall on the car and contribute to a passenger’s fatal injuries. A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals issued that ruling this morning.
In other opinions released today,
- a unanimous three-judge panel affirmed the trial court ruling in a controversial case involving the Yadkin County jail.
- a unanimous three-judge panel ruled against NASCAR’s Brian France in a dispute over opening the courtroom during his divorce proceedings.
- a unanimous three-judge panel ruled in favor of a Rowan County defendant in vacating District and Superior court orders forcing him to enroll in lifetime satellite-based monitoring for sex offenders. The Appeals Court ruled that neither court had “subject-matter jurisdiction” in the case.
- a unanimous three-judge panel offered a mixed ruling in a Cumberland County dispute among lawyers who are trying to decide how to split up their firm. (An old saying declares that ?the cobbler?s children have no shoes.? Lawyers may suffer from the same problem, if they are too busy dealing with their clients? legal affairs to address their own. This case arises because the members of a law firm organized as a PLLC did not adopt an operating agreement or any other documents governing the operation of the PLLC.)
