Opinion
No. 518PA04
Filed 5 May 2005
On discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-31 of a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 166 N.C. App. 186, 600 S.E.2d 872 (2004), reversing an order entered by Judge James C. Spencer, Jr. on 20 November 2002 in Superior Court, Alamance County. Heard in the Supreme Court 19 April 2005.
Thomas, Ferguson Mullins, L.L.P., by Jay H. Ferguson, and Robert M. Ward, City Attorney, for plaintiff-appellant. Everett, Gaskins, Hancock Stevens, LLP, by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, for defendant-appellee. Andrew L. Romanet, Jr., General Counsel, and Gregory F. Schwitzgebel, III, Senior Assistant General Counsel, North Carolina League of Municipalities, amicus curiae. Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey Leonard, L.L.P., by Charles F. Marshall, for North Carolina Press Association and North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, amici curiae. Ellis Winters, LLP, by Julia F. Youngman, for American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, and Hunter, Higgins, Miles, Elam Benjamin, PLLC, by Robert N. Hunter, Jr., for John Locke Foundation, amici curiae.
DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.