Petitioner kept ten potbellied pigs as pets, but the “Limited Agriculture” provision of the respondent-town’s zoning ordinance, which applies to petitioner’s residential property, prohibits the keeping of “livestock such as . . . swine. . . .” Although petitioner may ...

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Plaintiff argues that the defendant-city violated its own City Council Rule 28 by holding an electronic meeting via WebEx to decide a matter that could have been postponed, i.e., the rezoning of property to allow the construction of up to ...

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Even though the same rape case was the backdrop for the Hickory Police Department’s wrongful acts in 1987-1988 and again from 2003 to 2011, the acts were separate: the earlier wrongful acts involved withholding exculpatory evidence from the district attorney ...

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Although section 8(g) of the Asheville Civil Service Law only specifically refers to a petitioner seeking a jury trial, when read as a whole, § 8(g) permits either a petitioner or a respondent to request a jury trial upon appeal ...

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City of Greensboro v. Guilford County Board of Elections (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-009-17, 27 pp.) (Catherine Eagles, J.) 1:15-cv-00559; M.D.N.C. Holding: Where the General Assembly redistricted the City of Greensboro’s city council seats, and where the only discernible legislative motivation ...

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City of Greensboro v. Guilford County Board of Elections (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-008-17, 21 pp.) (Catherine Eagles, J.) 115-cv-00559; M.D.N.C. Holding: The General Assembly violated the Equal Protection Clause when it singled out the City of Greensboro and prohibited only ...

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Wilkie v. City of Boiling Springs Lakes (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-014-17, 18 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) Appealed from Brunswick County Superior Court (Ebern Watson III, J.) N.C. App. Holding: G.S. § 40A-51 defines when the remedy of an inverse condemnation ...

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Town of Belhaven v. Pantego Creek, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-381-16, 22 pp.) (Wendy Enochs, J.) Appealed from Beaufort County Superior Court (R. Stuart Albright, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although the 1948 deed from the plaintiff-town to defendants’ predecessors said ...

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Dellinger v. Lincoln County (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-237-16, 22 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) Appealed from Lincoln County Superior Court (Yvonne Evans, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A solar farm developer met its prima facie showing of entitlement to a conditional use ...

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Long v. Currituck County (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-205-16, 15 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Currituck County Superior Court (Cy Grant, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Respondent Letendre’s project plan calls for three attached buildings of 5,000 square feet each. Since ...

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