Opinion
No. 03-1122.
September 22, 2005.
Mark Tucker Hurt, Abingdon, VA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Ben Oshel Bridgers, Haire Bridgers, PA, Sylva, NC, Christopher G. Browning, Jr., Solicitor General, Jill Beth Hickey, Assistant Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC, Roy H. Patton, Jr., Canton, NC, William Timpson, Marble, NC, Zeyland G. McKinney, Jr., Robbinsville, NC, Scott Douglas MacLatchie, Sean Francis Perrin, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge Rice, PLLC, Charlotte, NC, for Defendants-Appellees.
ORDER
This case comes to us on remand from the Supreme Court. Graham County Soil Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, ___ U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 2444, 162 L.Ed.2d 390 (2005). In accordance with that decision, we in turn remand the case to the district court with directions to dismiss it as time-barred under North Carolina's three-year statute of limitations for wrongful discharge. See N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1-52(5) (2003); Renegar v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 145 N.C.App. 78, 549 S.E.2d 227, 229 (2001).
Entered at the direction of Judge Wilkinson, with the concurrence of Judge Michael and Judge Duncan.