Among the latest batch of opinions from the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a lower-court ruling and will allow two Yancey County residents to pursue a suit linked to their ejection from seats on the county’s Department of Social Services board of directors.
- A three-judge panel has dismissed an appeal that attempted to toss a defamation suit from a former Haywood County Council on Aging executive director who was fired and charged in 2006 with embezzlement. After the charges were dropped, the former executive director filed suit against members of the council’s board of directors. The appellate ruling allows that suit to move forward.
- A unanimous three-judge panel has affirmed the Department of Health and Human Services’ final ruling in a complicated certificate-of-need dispute involving an Asheville oncology treatment center.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial-court ruling allowing Wrightsville Beach to block Four Seasons Management from building a four-story parking deck at its hotel without amending its conditional-use permit.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower-court ruling favoring the state in a dispute over more than $50,000 in Medicaid bills for a Guilford County woman who died in 2004.
