One of the best-known houses in one of Raleigh’s older neighborhoods is also among its newest. In 2013, Louis Cherry and Marsha Gordon applied to build a modernist house in Raleigh’s Oakwood neighborhood, where most existing houses are from the Victorian era or have similar designs. The resulting controversy generated both considerable national news coverage...
RALEIGH — The N.C. Supreme Court has held that Henderson County can collect back taxes with interest from a widow after the county failed to assess property taxes on her house for a decade.
RALEIGH - A Gaston county couple won a significant legal battle recently in their attempt to recover damages from the county for failing to discover serious defects in a house they had hired a contractor to build.
RALEIGH — The state’s second-highest court Tuesday upheld a property owner’s challenge to $5,000 in fines imposed by Wilmington. In its ruling, the N.C. Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that the city’s requirement that an owner occupy a garage apartment was unconstitutional.
RALEIGH — The state’s second-highest court has rejected an attempt by the Moore County town of Pinebluff to prevent a local Habitat for Humanity group from building a 75-home subdivision. The N.C. Court of Appeals held that the town had improperly found the development not to be in harmony with the surrounding area.
RALEIGH — The state’s second highest court rejected attempts by the N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources and the Environmental Management Commission to fine a Nash County property owner $7,500 for failure to submit a comprehensive site assessment for a property he had inherited.
RALEIGH — In recent years, cases of child victims of rape and other forms of sexual abuse coming forward to press charges years later as adults have garnered considerable attention. Among the issues such cases raise are to what degree it is possible to have a fair trial years after an alleged assault took place. In a ruling March 15, the N.C. Court of Appeals held such prosecutions are lawful and do not violate due process rights. The court ruled that a plaintiff's constitutional due-process rights were not violated by a 15-year gap between when the crimes occurred and when he was charged.
RALEIGH — The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that county commissions and city councils may not hear appeals from neighbors in land subdivision cases unless local ordinances give local residents the right to object. A Wilmington company had planned to build a new condominium complex of 427 units. After a local neighborhood group wrote the planning department requesting a public hearing, the New Hanover County Commission conducted the hearing and decided that the firm should be allowed to build only 213 units. The company sued, and both a trial court and appeals court ruled in its favor.
