Since plaintiffs lacked standing to protest the defendant-city’s zoning decision under a former law, they also lack standing to seek a declaratory judgment that the city should have made its zoning decision in conformity with the former law rather than ...

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Cherry Community Organization v. City of Charlotte (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-023-18, 18 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) (Robert Hunter Jr., concurring in the result only) (Mark Davis, J., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior ...

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Quinn v. Board of County Comm’rs for Queen Anne’s County, Md. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-153-17, 19 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 16-1890, July 7, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Russell, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A district court did not err in ...

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Thompson v. Town of White Lake (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-076-17, 15 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court (James Gregory Bell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The respondent-town’s zoning inspector gave three reasons for the town’s intended revocation ...

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Thompson v. Town of White Lake (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-076-17, 15 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court (James Gregory Bell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The respondent-town’s zoning inspector gave three reasons for the town’s intended revocation ...

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Brookline Residential, LLC v. City of Charlotte (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-019-17, 18 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Hugh Lewis, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A developer obtained a bond to guarantee construction of the roads in ...

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Pittsboro Matters, Inc. v. Town of Pittsboro (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-018-17, 27 pp.) (Wendy Enochs, J.) Appealed from Chatham County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The defendant-town could adopt its small-area-plan review and approval process without ...

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Campbell v. City of Statesville (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-193-16, 14 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Iredell County Superior Court (Mark Klass, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Statesville City Council member Michael Schlesinger lived half a mile from a ...

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Pittsboro Matters, Inc. v. Town of Pittsboro (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-151-16, 14 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Chatham County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Plaintiffs did not violate N.C. R. Civ. P. 11 when they ...

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Cherry v. Wiesner (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-051-16, 27 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Elaine O’Neal Bushfan, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A homeowner in Raleigh’s historic Oakwood neighborhood lacked standing to challenge the Raleigh Historic Development ...

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