JOKER CLUB, L.L.C. v. HARDIN

No. COA06-123.

643 S.E.2d 626 (2007)

JOKER CLUB, L.L.C., Plaintiff, v. James E. HARDIN, Jr. District Attorney, 14th Judicial District, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen W. Powell, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General David J. Adinolfi, II, for defendant-appellee.


CALABRIA, Judge.

Joker Club, L.L.C., ("plaintiff") appeals from an order of the trial court, denying its request for injunctive relief against former District Attorney James E. Hardin ("defendant") and concluding that poker is a game of chance that is illegal in North Carolina. We dismiss in part and affirm the order of the trial court.

On 11 August 2004, plaintiff's attorney wrote to defendant, stating his client's intent to open a poker club within the territorial...

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