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  "name": "WENDY WHITT v. HARRIS TEETER, INC. and RANDY SHULTZ",
  "name_abbreviation": "Whitt v. Harris Teeter, Inc.",
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      "WENDY WHITT v. HARRIS TEETER, INC. and RANDY SHULTZ"
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        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nFor the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, the decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed.\nREVERSED.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy, L.L.P., by Harvey L. Kennedy, Harold L. Kennedy, III, and Annie Brown Kennedy, for plaintiff-appellee.",
      "Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, by Lucretia D. Guia, and J. Mark Sampson, for defendant-appellant Harris Teeter, Inc.",
      "Patterson Harkavy LLP, by Burton Craige, for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Southern States Police Benevolent Association, Inc., North Carolina Police Benevolent Association, Inc., and North Carolina Association of Educators; Suzanne Reynolds for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, and Charles E. Daye for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amici curiae."
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    "head_matter": "WENDY WHITT v. HARRIS TEETER, INC. and RANDY SHULTZ\nNo. 416A04\n(Filed 1 July 2005)\nEmployer and Employee\u2014 constructive wrongful discharge\u2014 sexual harassment \u2014 public policy \u2014 directed verdict for employer\nThe decision by the Court of Appeals that the trial court erred by granting a directed verdict for defendant employer on a claim for constructive wrongful discharge in violation of public policy based upon sexual harassment is reversed for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion that (1) a claim of constructive discharge based upon either a hostile work environment or in retaliation is not authorized under the public policy exception to the employee-at-will doctrine, and (2) even if a constructive discharge claim is so authorized, plaintiff presented insufficient evidence on the element of the claim that defendant employer\u2019s handling of plaintiff\u2019s complaints of sexual harassment amounted to a deliberate attempted to make her workplace so intolerable that she would resign.\nAppeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 165 N.C. App. 32, 598 S.E.2d 151 (2004), reversing a judgment entered upon a directed verdict on 2 April 2002 by Judge Sanford L. Steelman, Jr. in Superior Court, Forsyth County. Heard in the Supreme Court 18 May 2005.\nKennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy, L.L.P., by Harvey L. Kennedy, Harold L. Kennedy, III, and Annie Brown Kennedy, for plaintiff-appellee.\nWomble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, by Lucretia D. Guia, and J. Mark Sampson, for defendant-appellant Harris Teeter, Inc.\nPatterson Harkavy LLP, by Burton Craige, for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Southern States Police Benevolent Association, Inc., North Carolina Police Benevolent Association, Inc., and North Carolina Association of Educators; Suzanne Reynolds for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, and Charles E. Daye for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amici curiae."
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