Among the other opinions the N.C. Appeals Court released this morning:
- A unanimous three-judge panel sided with Southern Pines in its fight with companies that wanted to build an auto sales park in town. The appellate ruling gives Southern Pines a greater victory than it had secured at the trial-court level. While much of the prospective auto dealers’ case against the town had been tossed out at the trial-court level, the Appeals Court also rejected the auto dealers’ “common law claim of a vested right” to build the auto park.
- A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a lower-court ruling in a dispute over the assignment of a Forsyth County high school student to an alternative school without due process. While the student won his appeal, judges admitted that they were limited in providing him a remedy, since the case dealt with a school assignment for the 2008-09 school year.
- A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed part of a lower-court ruling and dismissed the rest of an appeal related to a dispute involving riparian rights, Marshallberg Harbor, and Carteret County government.
- A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a lower-court ruling and gave a Transylvania County social worker immunity in a wrongful-death lawsuit linked to a child killed in a case of “shaken baby syndrome.”?
