The N.C. Supreme Court posted a set of opinions today:
| CommScope Credit Union v. Butler & Burke, LLP, (5PA15) (View COA Opinion) Whether defendant owed a fiduciary duty to plaintiff when defendant audited plaintiff’s financial statements; whether plaintiff is barred from recovery by the doctrines of contributory negligence and in pari delicto. | |
| State v. Nkiam, (385PA15) (View COA Opinion) Whether a noncitizen who pleaded guilty to a deportable crime but claimed that he was not correctly advised by counsel of the immigration consequences of his plea should be allowed to withdraw it; application of U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Padilla v. Kentucky. | |
| State v. Anderson, (432PA15) (View COA Opinion) Appeal from conviction for common law obstruction of justice, as elevated to a felony under N.C.G.S. § 14-3(b); whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to dismiss based on insufficient evidence. | |
| In re C.L.S., (54A16) (View COA Opinion) Whether the trial court’s findings of fact supported its conclusions of law that respondent-father’s parental rights should be terminated under N.C.G.S. § 7B-1111(a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(5). | |
| State v. Collins, (66A16) (View COA Opinion) Whether the Court of Appeals majority erred in affirming the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained via a strip search. | |
| Holt v. NCDOT, (76A16) (View COA Opinion) Action under the State Tort Claims Act to recover for wrongful deaths resulting from a motor vehicle collision at an intersection; appeal from Industrial Commission’s decision and order awarding damages to decedents’ estates; whether DOT’s failure to install a traffic signal at the intersection was a proximate cause of the wreck; whether the intentional acts of the drivers of two speeding vehicles that directly caused the collision insulated DOT from liability. |
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