In other opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals:

  • A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower-court ruling against former National Football League player Matthew Stinchomb in his medical malpractice suit against Charlotte’s Presbyterian Hospital and other defendants.
  • A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower-court ruling against Pasquotank County in a suit linked to a 2007 drowning death at the public Fun Junktion park.
  • A unanimous three-judge panel upheld the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to use the certificate-of-need process to block Eastern Carolina Internal Medicine from buying a mobile MRI scanner.
  • A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial-court ruling favoring Beaufort in a dispute over a home renovation project in the town’s historic district.