Opinion
No. 180PA96
Filed 6 December 1996
On discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-31 of a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 122 N.C. App. 49, 468 S.E.2d 517 (1996), affirming declaratory judgment entered 1 March 1995 by Brewer, J., in Superior Court, Cumberland County. Heard in the Supreme Court 12 November 1996.
Thorp and Clarke, by Herbert H. Thorp and Matthew R. Plyler, for plaintiff-appellant and -appellee.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice, P.L.L.C., by Elizabeth L. Riley, for defendant-appellant and -appellee.
Tharrington Smith, by Ann L. Majestic, Michael Crowell, and Rod Malone, on behalf of North Carolina School Boards Association, Inc., amicus curiae.
Everett Gaskins Hancock Stevens, by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, on behalf of Fayetteville Publishing Company and The North Carolina Press Association, amici curiae.
PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.