Legal Opinion

Powell v. North Carolina Department of Transportation

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided March 6, 1998No. 552PA96Published

1Opinion of the Court

499 S.E.2d 180 (1998)

347 N.C. 614

Betsy Johnson POWELL, Petitioner,

v.

NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Respondent.

No. 552PA96.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 6, 1998.

Broughton, Wilkins, Webb & Sugg, P.A. by R. Palmer Sugg, Raleigh, for petitioner-appellee.

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Grayson G. Kelley, Special Deputy Attorney General, Robert O. Crawford, III, Assistant Attorney General, and Sarah Ann Lannom, Associate Attorney General, for respondent-appellant.

FRYE, Justice.

Both this case and a companion case, N.C. Dep't of Transp. v. Hodge, 347 N.C. 602, 499 S.E.2d…

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2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Elrod v. BurnsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Branti v. FinkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. ACT-UP Triangle v. Commission for Health ServicesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1997
  4. Stott v. HaworthCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1990
  5. North Carolina Department of Correction v. GibsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1983

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