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One of the key cases involved a lawsuit against the Gaston County Board of Education that alleged the board dismissed numerous complaints against former wrestling coach Garry Scott Goins for ...
After years of waiting, supporters and opponents of allowing lawsuits over child sex abuse that occurred decades ago finally had their say before North Carolina’s highest court. The North ...
[4] Courts had been reluctant to accept a tort for emotional harm for fear of opening a "wide door" to frivolous claims. [5] A change first occurred in the Irish courts, which repudiated the Australian railroad decision and recognised liability for "nervous shock" in the Byrne (1884) and Bell (1890) cases. [6]
Gov. Roy Cooper, DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley, Mecklenburg County and others failed to fix a broken system, the lawsuit says.
Also, permitted the courts to defer judgment regarding a person's need for commitment, to the doctor(s) 14th 1979 Parham v. J.R. The Court ruled that minors may be civilly committed to mental health facilities without an adversary hearing; in essence, parents do have the right to commit their children. 14th 1982 Youngberg v. Romeo
A lawsuit accusing North Carolina officials of unnecessarily warehousing foster children in locked psychiatric facilities has survived the Department of Health and Human Services’ effort to ...
A Mecklenburg County jury awarded $1.4 million in May 2001 to a former wrestling coach against P, after the coach's wife left him for P (the jury verdict was later reduced by the North Carolina Court of Appeals as excessive). A year 2000 verdict of $86,250 for alienation of affections and $15,000 for criminal conversation in the case of Pharr v.
The burden of taking care of people with disabilities, such as schizophrenia, is falling to county jails, a new lawsuit says. NC accused in lawsuit of letting people with mental disabilities ...