
    RICHMOND COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION v. Janet COWELL, North Carolina State Treasurer, in her official capacity, Linda Combs, North Carolina State Controller, in her official capacity, Andrew Heath, North Carolina State Budget Director, in his official capacity, Frank Perry, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, in his official capacity, and Roy Cooper, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, in his official capacity
    No. 146P13-2
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    March 1, 2018
    Hal F. Askins, Special Deputy Attorney General, John F. Maddrey, Solicitor General, Thomas M. Woodward, Special Deputy Attorney General, Amar Majmundar, Senior Deputy Attorney General, for Cowell, Janet, et al.
    George E. Crump, III, Attorney at Law, Rockingham, for Richmond County Board of Education.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by the Plaintiff on the 11th of August 2017 in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A-30, and the motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of substantial constitutional question filed by the Defendants, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals: the motion to dismiss the appeal is

"Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 1st of March 2018."

Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 11th of August 2017 by Plaintiff in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 1st of March 2018."  