Among the latest batch of opinions the N.C. Court of Appeals released this morning:
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a final decision in a certificate-of-need dispute between Fresenius Medical Care of Brunswick County and TRC-Leland over a new dialysis facility.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a state Industrial Commission ruling against Wake County public schools in a worker’s compensation dispute involving an employee who stumbled while walking into an elementary school workroom in 2007.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of Duke Energy in a Gaston County case involving a driver who had sued the utility after driving her car into one of its utility poles. The suit focused on the driver’s complaint about the location of the utility pole.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of Duke Energy in a Graham County easement dispute.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County in a dispute involving a sledder killed in 2005 after her inner tube hit an above-ground manhole.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling from Iredell County in favor of a homeowners’ association and against property owners who built a pool house and “tiki hut” larger than the association permitted.
