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DEWALT v. HOOKS

No. 165A21.

879 S.E.2d 179 (2022)

2022-NCSC-105

Rocky DEWALT, Robert Parham, Anthony McGee, and Shawn Bonnett, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, v. Erik A. HOOKS, in his official capacity as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed November 4, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation by Daniel K. Siegel and Kristi Graunke , for plaintiff-appellants.

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Orlando L. Rodriguez , Special Deputy Attorney General, Mary Carla Babb , Special Deputy Attorney General, and James B. Trachtman , Special Deputy Attorney General, for defendant-appellees.

Aviance Brown , Irving Joyner , Durham, Daryl Atkinson , Whitley Carpenter , and Ashley Mitchell , for North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, amicus curiae.

Lockamy Law Firm, by Scott Holmes , Wilmington; and Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, by Daniel Greenfield , Bradford Zukerman , and Kathrina Szymborski , for Professors Sharon Dolovich, Alexander A. Reinert, Margo Schlanger, and John F. Stinneford, amici curiae.

Nichad Davis and Benjamin I. Friedman , Professors and Practitioners of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Medicine, for amici curiae.

¶ 1 In this case we consider whether the trial court erred by denying plaintiffs' motion for class certification. Plaintiffs are inmates in North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) custody. Plaintiffs brought a class action lawsuit against defendants seeking to represent certain individuals in DPS custody who are...

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