Richmond County Board of Education v. Cowell

McCullough, judge.

Defendants appeal from an order of the trial court denying their motion to dismiss the present action upon grounds of sovereign immunity and lack of standing by plaintiff to bring this action. After careful review, we affirm the trial court’s denial of defendants’ motion to dismiss upon grounds of sovereign immunity, and we dismiss defendants’ remaining argument concerning plaintiff’s standing to bring this action as interlocutory and not affecting a substantial right of defendants.

I. Background

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-304(a) (2011) enumerates a list of costs that “shall be…