DEVORE FOR HORTON v. SAMUEL

No. COA22-305.

882 S.E.2d 389 (2022)

2022-NCCOA-834

Fred W. DEVORE, III as Guardian ad Litem FOR Azaria HORTON, a Minor, Plaintiff, v. Charles Lamonte SAMUEL, Jr., Stacy V. Samuel, KinderCare Education, LLC and KinderCare Learning Centers, LLC, Defendants. Kindercare Education, LLC and KinderCare Learning Centers, LLC, Defendants/Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Keyera Gordon, Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed December 20, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Charlotte, by Steven A. Meckler and Daniel R. Hansen , for third-party plaintiffs-appellees.

J. Melissa Woods , Greensboro, and Hope A. Root , Charlotte, for third-party defendant-appellant Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education.


¶ 1 This case presents an issue of first impression concerning the waiver of governmental immunity for local school boards in school bus negligence cases. As explained below, we hold that the limited waiver of governmental immunity in these bus negligence cases does not permit a defendant to join a local school board as a third...

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