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Supreme Court Opinions Filed October 17, 2025
Creech v. Town of Cornelius
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant, a negligent truck driver, had adequate time and means to avoid injuring plaintiff, a contributorily negligent pedestrian.
Land v. Whitley
Whether defendants had a right of immediate appellate review of the trial court's interlocutory order denying defendants' motions to dismiss based on a claim of statutory immunity under the Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act.
Long v. Fowler
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment based on lack of proximate cause.
Mauck v. Cherry Oil Co.
Whether the Business Court erred in dismissing a claim for judicial dissolution under N.C.G.S. 55-14-30(2)(ii) for lack of standing when the plaintiff-shareholder held the contractual right to exercise a put option and sell their shares back to the company at fair market value.
Mitchell v. Univ. of N.C. Bd. of Governors
Whether courts interpreting state rules and regulations must defer to the legal interpretation of the state agency responsible for promulgating those rules and regulations.
N.C. Dep't of Env't Quality v. N.C. Farm Bureau Fed'n, Inc.
Whether the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources, unlawfully incorporated certain conditions into general permits for animal waste management systems without satisfying the rulemaking requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Pinnacle Health Servs. of N.C. LLC v. N.C. Dep't of Health & Hum. Servs.
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming an administrative law judge's determination that a certificate of need award was improper.
Southland Nat'l Ins. Corp. v. Lindberg
Whether reliance is reasonable in a claim for fraud in the inducement when the complaining party failed to conduct any material due diligence on the representations and warranties upon which the fraud claim is based.
State v. Chemuti
Whether N.C.G.S. 132-1.4A provides the exclusive procedure by which a criminal defendant in district court may request release of law enforcement agency recordings covered by the statute.
State v. Lail
Whether the Court of Appeals properly concluded the trial court prejudicially erred when it excluded a handwritten note written by the complaining witness.
State v. Norman
Whether probable cause supported a warrant to search defendant's vehicle.
State v. Rogers
Whether the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress cell-site location information.
State v. Wilson
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding step one of the Batson inquiry was moot.
Supreme Court Opinions Filed August 22, 2025
Cutter v. Vojnovic
Whether the Business Court erred in granting a motion for partial judgment on the pleadings, granting a motion to strike portions of an affidavit on summary judgment, and disregarding a purported expert report on summary judgment; and whether the Business Court erred in granting a motion for summary judgment, because a partnership did not exist.
Devalle v. N.C. Sheriffs' Educ. & Training Standards Comm'n
Whether the Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission arbitrarily or capriciously denied petitioner's application for justice officer certification upon concluding that he lacked the good moral character required of deputy sheriffs.
Durbin v. Durbin
Whether escalating conflict and an unwillingness to communicate for the welfare of the child constitutes a substantial change in circumstances supporting a modification of a child custody order.
Howell v. Cooper
Whether plaintiffs' Corum claims, which allege that restrictions imposed on bars during the COVID 19 pandemic violated the Fruits of the Their Own Labor Clause and Law of the Land Clause, are colorable such that sovereign immunity does not bar their suit.
In re E.H.
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by vacating the neglect adjudication of a juvenile whose sibling was abused.