State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau

ARNOLD, Judge.

We note with disapproval that counsel for the Bureau has failed to comply with the requirements of App. R. 10(b)(1): “Each exception shall be set out immediately following the record of judicial action to which it is addressed.” App. R. 10(a) makes clear that exceptions not so set out in the record cannot be made the bases of assignments of error. The necessity for this rule is most obvious in cases such as the one before us, which involves a 442-page record. It is an unnecessary waste of judicial time, and a source of possibly ineffective review, to require this Court to guess…