The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of Todd Boggess in a well-publicized Durham murder case.

In a pair of cases, the appeals court reversed lower-court rulings in challenges to Buncombe County’s countywide zoning ordinance and multi-family dwelling ordinance. The appeals court ruling renders the ordinance invalid.  

In another zoning dispute, the court upheld a lower-court ruling in favor of Pinebluff.

The court upheld a lower court ruling granting N.C. Baptist Hospital an injunction against Novant and Forsyth Memorial Hospital in a certificate-of-need dispute.

An appellate panel upheld a lower-court ruling in favor of the N.C. Department of Transportation in a dispute over condemnation connected with the widening of U.S. 23 Business in Haywood County.

The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that continues a years-old legal battle between a Granville County property owner and the authorities over a biannual pigeon shoot called “The Dogwood Invitational.”

The appeals court  reversed
a lower-court ruling that stopped a family from recovering interest in
a dispute with the Nash-Rocky Mount schools over a playground swingset
injury.