MATTER OF HUGHES, BY AND THROUGH INGRAM

No. COA15-699-2 No. COA15-763-2 No. COA15-829-2.

801 S.E.2d 680 (2017)

In the MATTER OF HUGHES, BY AND THROUGH V.H. INGRAM, Administratrix of the Estate of Hughes, Claim for Compensation Under the North Carolina Eugenics Asexualization and Sterilization Compensation Program, Claimant-Appellant. In the Matter of Redmond, by and through L. Nichols, Administratrix of the Estate of Redmond, Claim for Compensation Under the North Carolina Eugenics Asexualization and Sterilization Compensation Program, Claimant-Appellant. In the Matter of Smith, Claim for Compensation Under the North Carolina Eugenics Asexualization and Sterilization Compensation Program, Claimant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed: June 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pressly, Thomas & Conley, PA, Statesville, by Edwin A. Pressly ; and UNC Center for Civil Rights, Pittsboro, by Elizabeth McLaughlin Haddix , for Claimant-Appellants.

Attorney General Roy Cooper , by Assistant Attorney General Marc X. Sneed , for North Carolina Department of Justice, Tort Claims Section.


I. Facts and Procedural History

The General Assembly enacted the Eugenics Asexualization and Sterilization Compensation Program ("the Compensation Program"), N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-426.50 et seq., in 2013, in order to provide compensation to victims of the North Carolina Eugenics laws. 2013 N.C. Sess...

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