Opinion
No. 270PA00
Filed 1 February 2002
No headnotes.
On appeal of right of a constitutional question pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(1) and on discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-31 to review a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 138 N.C. App. 1, 530 S.E.2d 590 (2000), affirming in part and reversing and remanding in part an order for summary judgment entered by Morgan (Melzer A., Jr.), J., on 14 August 1998 in Superior Court, Guilford County. Heard in the Supreme Court 12 March 2001.
Fisher, Clinard Craig, PLLC, by John O. Craig, III, and Shane T. Stutts, for plaintiff-appellees.
Hill, Evans, Duncan, Jordan Davis, P.L.L.C., by Polly D. Sizemore and Joseph P. Gram, for defendant-appellant City of Greensboro.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice, P.L.L.C., by Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., and Tamara P.W. Desai, on behalf of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, amicus curiae.
North Carolina League of Municipalities, by Andrew L. Romanet, Jr., General Counsel, and Gregory F. Schwitzgebel III, Assistant General Counsel, amicus curiae.
Smith Helms Mulliss Moore, L.L.P., by James G. Middlebrooks and T. Jonathan Adams, on behalf of the North Carolina Council of School Attorneys, amicus curiae.
Tharrington Smith, L.L.P., by Michael Crowell and Deborah Stagner, on behalf of North Carolina School Boards Association, amicus curiae.
Blanchard, Jenkins, Miller Lewis, P.A., by E. Hardy Lewis, on behalf of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.
DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED IN PART; APPEAL DISMISSED EX MERO MOTU IN PART.