In other interesting decisions handed down this morning, the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- reversed the trial court ruling in State v. Carter, based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that evidence from a warrantless search of a defendant’s car should be suppressed. The ruling from the nation’s highest court forced state appeals court judges to reject their own previous decision in the case.
- reversed a trial court order in State v. Causby that would have forced a convicted sex offender to undergo three years of satellite-based monitoring at the conclusion of his sentence.
- reversed a trial court in Tallman v. The City of Gastonia to allow for a wrongful-death lawsuit to move forward against the city. The suit is connected to the actions of first responders after a 911 call related to a heart-attack victim.
- reversed part of a trial court’s ruling in Housecalls Home Health v. State to allow a Medicaid-funded contractor to proceed with a suit against the state and the Department of Health and Human Services. The dispute involves allegations of Medicaid fraud.
- affirmed a trial court’s ruling in Biggers v. Bald Head Island, which held against a plaintiff seeking damages for negligence in the case of a child who died after falling out of a golf cart while traveling on Bald Head Island.
