Opinion
No. 305PA00
Filed 6 April 2001
On discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-31 of a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 138 N.C. App. 309, 531 S.E.2d 219 (2000), affirming a decision entered by Bullock, J., on 16 April 1999 in Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court 15 March 2001.
Parker, Poe, Adams Bernstein, L.L.P., by Renee J. Montgomery and Amy Flanary-Smith, for petitioner-appellee.
Roy A. Cooper, Attorney General, by James A. Wellons, Special Deputy Attorney General, for respondent-appellant.
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey Leonard, L.L.P., by Jim W. Phillips, Jr., and Forrest W. Campbell, Jr.; and Maupin, Taylor Ellis, P.A., by Charles B. Neely, Jr., on behalf of the North Carolina Hospital Association, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, and Mission-St. Joseph's Health System, Inc., amici curiae.
DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.