Frampton v. The Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill

BRYANT, Judge.

*16 Where the plain language of a statute permits the trial court to exercise its discretion in the award of attorney's fees and where plaintiff does not establish an abuse of discretion in the court's denial of plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees, we affirm.

The background of this case is set out in Frampton v. Univ. of N.C. ( Frampton I ), 241 N.C.App. 401 , 773 S.E.2d 526 (2015). In brief, the case addressed the termination of Paul Frampton ("plaintiff"), a tenured professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC"), who was arrested in an airport in Buenos…