Opinion
No. 177A96
Filed 10 February 1997
Appeal by defendants pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 122 N.C. App. 15, 468 S.E.2d 826 (1996), reversing an order of summary judgment for defendants entered by Cashwell, J., on 30 August 1994 in Superior Court, Wake County. On 12 June 1996 this Court allowed defendants' petition for discretionary review of additional issues. Heard in the Supreme Court 11 December 1996.
Randall, Jervis, Hill, by John C. Randall, for plaintiff-appellee.
Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Thomas J. Ziko, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Barbara A. Shaw, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant-appellants.
Kilpatrick Cody, by Neil I. Levy, for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, amicus curiae.
Chief Justice Mitchell and Justices Frye, Whichard, and Lake voted to affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals for the reasons stated in the majority opinion by Smith, J. Justices Webb, Parker, and Orr voted to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion by Greene, J. Accordingly, the decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
We hold that defendants' petition for discretionary review of additional issues was improvidently allowed.
AFFIRMED IN PART; DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED IN PART.