A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s ruling against former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline in her effort to secure email records from the Administrative Office of the Courts. Appellate judges agreed with the trial court that Cline had failed to pursue her public records request with the correct AOC official. Cline had been seeking the email records in preparation to defend a complaint filed against her by the N.C. State Bar.
Among the other opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling forcing Guilford County to pay its longtime elections director, George Gilbert, $38,500 plus interest and costs, because his salary was too low.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling favoring Fayetteville State University in a dispute with a former women’s basketball coach who claimed he was forced to resign.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling favoring Durham and one of its police officers against a man injured after the officer used a Taser to subdue him in 2009.
- A unanimous three0judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling favoring Black Mountain and Buncombe County in a dispute involving performance bonds linked to infrastructure for failed development projects.
- A split 2-1 panel affirmed a trial court ruling throwing out a lawsuit against the operator of a fire and rescue vehicle involved in a collision in Rutherford County. The majority agreed the fire and rescue operator had governmental immunity in the case.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling blocking the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority from evicting a Wayne County tenant whose friend had been busted on drug charges in the tenant’s rental home.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial court ruling against CVS in a Mecklenburg County development dispute involving construction of a new Wal-Mart pharmacy near an existing CVS store.
