Legal Opinion
City of New Bern v. New Bern-Craven County Board of Education
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided December 9, 1994No. 5PA94PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHICHARD, Justice.
On 8 November 1988 plaintiff-appellee, the City of New Bern [hereinafter “the City”], filed a declaratory judgment action in Superi- or Court, Craven County, seeking to have three statutes governing the inspection of buildings in New Bern declared unconstitutional. On 16 January 1989 the trial court (Reid, J.) entered an order dismissing the action with prejudice, ruling that no justiciable controversy existed that would permit the court to take jurisdiction over the matter. The City appealed to the Court of Appeals. This Court allowed the City’s petition for discretionary…
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