In addition to the case involving a state senator, appeals court judges:
- upheld an Onslow County Superior Court ruling allowing the families of two 13-year-old traveling North Carolina soccer players killed in a 2004 bus wreck outside Paris to sue subsidiaries of Goodyear Tires because of the role of a faulty tire in the wreck.
- ruled that men injured in an auto wreck after an all-day drinking session at a Greenville Hooters could not sue the restaurant for “unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
- allowed the family of a special-needs student who faced abuse in a Transylvania County public school to proceed with a lawsuit against the student’s primary teacher.
- ruled against Elizabeth City in a dispute over a home demolition. The judges overruled a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in the case to the city, so the dispute will head back to the trial-court level.
- upheld a lower-court ruling requiring a man to pay thousands of dollars in gift tax on property he transferred to his daughter.
