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  "name": "THE NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.; CAPITAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.; ABC, INC.; NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY; WLFL, INC.; NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION; and NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, INC. v. PAUL COBLE; TOM FETZER; MARC SCRUGGS, JR.; and KIERAN SHANAHAN",
  "name_abbreviation": "News & Observer Publishing Co. v. Coble",
  "decision_date": "1998-12-04",
  "docket_number": "No. 53PA98",
  "first_page": "350",
  "last_page": "350",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
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      "category": "reporters:state_regional",
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      "year": 1998,
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      "cite": "128 N.C. App. 307",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "N.C. App.",
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      "year": 1998,
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    "source": "Harvard",
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Justice Wynn did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "THE NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.; CAPITAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.; ABC, INC.; NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY; WLFL, INC.; NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION; and NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, INC. v. PAUL COBLE; TOM FETZER; MARC SCRUGGS, JR.; and KIERAN SHANAHAN"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nAFFIRMED.\nJustice Wynn did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER CURIAM."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., by Mark J. Prak and David Kushner; and Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens, by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, for plaintiff-appellees.",
      "Eugene Boyce and Philip Isley for defendant-appellants."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "THE NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.; CAPITAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.; ABC, INC.; NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY; WLFL, INC.; NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION; and NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, INC. v. PAUL COBLE; TOM FETZER; MARC SCRUGGS, JR.; and KIERAN SHANAHAN\nNo. 53PA98\n(Filed 4 December 1998)\nOn discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-31 of a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 128 N.C. App. 307, 494 S.E.2d 784 (1998), reversing a judgment entered on 7 February 1997 which dismissed plaintiffs\u2019 complaint, and reversing an order entered on 11 February 1997 which taxed attorneys\u2019 fees against plaintiffs, by Farmer, J., in Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court 29 September 1998.\nBrooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., by Mark J. Prak and David Kushner; and Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens, by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, for plaintiff-appellees.\nEugene Boyce and Philip Isley for defendant-appellants."
  },
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  "first_page_order": 388,
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