A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously in favor of Jones County in a legal dispute involving taxpayer-funded transportation services for county residents, reversing a trial-court ruling in the case. A private contractor had sued the county and its Department of Social Services when Jones County officials decided in November 2011 not to renew a contract with that provider.
In another opinion released this morning, a unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial-court ruling upholding the Cabarrus County sheriff’s 2011 decision to deny a concealed handgun permit to a man convicted 10 years earlier of assaulting a woman.
