North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
Brooksby v. North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-250-16, 8 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Randolph County Superior Court (W. Erwin Spainhour, J.) N.C. App.
Holding: Plaintiffs requested a mass records search, and the defendant-clerk of court denied the request on the explicit terms plaintiffs requested, citing, among other things, a courthouse ban on cellphones, a lack of the manpower necessary to supervise such a search, and her responsibility to maintain the records. Under the limitations of the clerk’s office and the availability of its employees, defendants made reasonable accommodations to allow plaintiffs access to the documents in a timely manner by allowing plaintiffs to use a digital imaging wand approved by the sheriff to copy 15 foreclosure records at a time.
We affirm summary judgment for defendants.
