In other cases of interest:
- A three-judge appellate panel offered a mixed ruling in a dispute over a proposed biodiesel plant in Iredell County. The judges sided with the trial court in denying an injunction and legal standing (in other words, the right to sue) to a group called North Iredell Neighbors for Rural Life. But the appeals court reversed the trial court’s ruling that biodiesel production could be considered a “bona fide farm use.” The case has been sent back to the trial court to address that issue.?
- The appeals court reversed a lower court ruling and will allow an Anson County prison inmate to sue the state Department of Correction over $10 fees assessed for disciplinary infractions.
- An appellate panel upheld a lower court ruling favoring the N.C. Department of Public Instruction in a dispute over alleged racial bias in the firing of an education consultant.
- The appeals court upheld a trial court ruling favoring Charlotte in a condemnation dispute.
- An appellate panel upheld a trial court ruling favoring the Hendrick Automotive Group in a dispute involving a former company vice president and chief financial officer who says he was fired “due to his insistence that defendants comply with
certain laws.” - Based on guidance from a recent N.C. Supreme Court ruling, an appeals panel has reversed a lower court ruling blocking a permit for a topless bar at Mount Herman Road in Raleigh.?
- The appellate court ruled in favor of hockey star Rod Brind’Amour in his child support dispute.
