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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA 23-838 Filed 6 August 2024 New Hanover County, No. 18 CRS 59451 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ABIGAIL LYNN HOLLIS, Defendant. Appeal by Defendant from Judgment entered 1 November 2022 by Judge Frank Jones in New Hanover County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 15 May 2024. Attorney General Joshua H. Stein, by Special Depu

PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-1845 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA; A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE; UNIFOUR ONESTOP COLLABORATIVE; COMMON CAUSE NORTH CAROLINA; GOLDIE WELLS; KAY BRANDON; OCTAVIA RAINEY; SARA STOHLER; HUGH STOHLER, Plaintiffs, and LOUIS M. DUKE; CHARLES M. GRAY; ASGOD BARRANTES; JOSUE E. BERDUO; BRIA

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER MAX O. COGBURN, JR., Disctrict Judge. THIS MATTER is before the court on plaintiffs objections to the “Memorandum and Recommendation and Order” (# 16) of Honorable David S. Cayer, United States Magistrate Judge, entered November 4, 2011, 2011 WL 5974531 (W.D.N.C. Nov. 04, 2011). The substance of plaintiffs objections are contained in his “Memorandum in Support of Objection

1. Def’s Pro Se PWC to Review Order of COA (COAP12-598) 2. Def’s Pro Se Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis 3. Def’s Pro Se Motion to Appoint Counsel 1. Dismissed 2. Allowed 3. Dismissed as Moot

Sentelle, Senior Circuit Judge: North Carolina petitions for review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") orders involving the relicensing of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project No. 2197 ("Yadkin Project"). Petitioner alleges that the license applicant, Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. ("Alcoa"), misrepresented its plans to discontinue the use of project power for industrial produ

644 S.E.2d 573 (2007) The NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott BREWER and Kenneth Honeycutt, Attorneys, Defendants-Appellees. No. COA06-815. Court of Appeals of North Carolina. May 15, 2007. The North Carolina State Bar, by Interim Co-Counsel Katherine Jean and Deputy Counsel David R. Johnson, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Maxwell, Freeman &

PER CURIAM: Frederick Lawrence Washington seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). A certificate of appealability will not issue absent “a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2000). A pris

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA25-239 Filed 4 March 2026 Rutherford County, No. 21CR053458-800 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. TRONIE LEMAR HOLLIS Appeal by defendant from judgment entered 6 April 2023 by Judge J. Thomas Davis in Rutherford County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 10 February 2026. Attorney General Jeff Jackson, by Special Deputy Attorne

Upon consideration of the petition filed by Defendant on the 3rd day of May 2004 in this matter for a writ of mandamus, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the Superior Court, Forsyth County: "Denied by order of the Court in Conference this the 24th day of June 2004."

BRYANT, Judge. The orders of the trial court finding: (I) that petitioner was not required to act on respondent’s virtual charter school application before the March 15 deadline; (II) that the Office of Administrative Hearings was not the appropriate forum for hearing respondent’s claim; and (111) that the State Board of Education, not the Office of Administrative *272

684 S.E.2d 906 (2009) Gloria WOODARD, Petitioner, v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Respondent. No. COA09-217. Court of Appeals of North Carolina. November 17, 2009. *907 Schiller & Schiller, PLLC, by David G. Schiller, Raleigh, for Petitioner-Appellant. Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Special Deputy Atto

VAUGHN, Judge. Defendant comes before us with a single assignment of error, alleging that there was not sufficient evidence to raise a jury question on the charge of breaking and entering. The test for sufficiency of evidence, whether circumstantial or direct, is whether a reasonable inference of defendant’s guilt may be drawn from the circumstances viewed most favorably to the State. If such an inference may be drawn, the w

HUNTER, Robert C., Judge. Petitioners-appellants WakeMed and Rex Hospital, Inc., d/b/a Rex Healthcare (“Rex”) (collectively “petitioners”), appeal from the 31 August 2011 final agency decision of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Service Regulation (“the Agency”). In that decision, the Agency concluded that a certificate of need to develop three operating rooms in Wake County was pr

723 S.E.2d 151 (2012) TECHNOCOM BUSINESS SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Respondent. No. COA11-655. Court of Appeals of North Carolina. February 21, 2012. *152 Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Tenisha S. Jacobs, for respondent-appellant. The Wooten Law

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SCALIA. SCALIA, Circuit Judge: The State of North Carolina and the North Carolina Utilities Commission petition under 15 U.S.C. § 717r(b) (1982) for review of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order determining whether customers of the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation are entitled to be paid compensation in conjunction with a series of curtailment p

685 S.E.2d 14 (2009) Dinah BORYLA-LETT, individually and as adm. of the estate of, Amanda Boryla a/k/a Amanda Hrasar, and Jeffrey Lett, Plaintiffs, v. PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC., d/b/a Holly Hill Hospital, John T. Clapacs, North Raleigh Psychiatry, P.A., and Scott Jackson, P.A., Defendants. No. COA08-1357. Court of Appeals of North Carolina. November 3, 2009.

BEASLEY, Judge. *230The City of Rockingham and American Rivers (Petitioners) appeal from an order affirming the final agency decision of Respondent Environmental Management Commission (EMC). For the reasons stated herein, we affirm. I. Facts Progress Energy Carolinas (Intervenor) operates a hydroelectric power-generating facility a

STEPHENS, Judge. On 6 May 2005, Wade Bryan Bulloch, who at the time was a Line Sergeant with the North Carolina Highway Patrol (the “NCHP”), a division of the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety (the “Department), was dismissed from his employment on grounds of unacceptable personal conduct. On 26 July 2005, Bulloch challenged his dismissal by filing with the Office of Administrative Hearings (the “OAH”)

853 N.E.2d 953 (2006) Tonya M. MITCHELL, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL SOLUTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC., Appellee. and Louisa Hamilton, Appellant, v. Ricker Oil Company, Inc., Appellee. No. 29A02-0411-CV-931. Court of Appeals of Indiana. February 28, 2006. Publication Ordered August 21, 2006. *954 Ronald E

VAUGHN, Judge. The only assignment of error brought forward by defendant, through his court-appointed counsel, is that the court erred in failing to grant defendant’s motion for nonsuit in the charge of felonious assault on Douglas Richardson. The State *243offered competent and convincing evidence of the defendant’s guilt. That it was sufficient to go to the jury is