FORE v. WESTERN N.C. CONFERENCE OF UMC

No. COA21-546.

875 S.E.2d 32 (2022)

2022-NCCOA-404

Lisa Biggs FORE, Plaintiff, v. The WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (a/k/a Western North Carolina Conference); and The Children's Home, Incorporated (a/k/a The Children's Home, a/k/a The Crossnore School & Children's Home, a/k/a Crossnore Children's Home), Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed June 21, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet Janet & Suggs, LLC, by Richard Serbin and Matthew White , Winston Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.

Ogletree Deakins, by Kelly S. Hughes , Charlotte, and Ashley P. Cuttino , admitted pro hac vice, for defendant-appellant The Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (a/k/a Western North Carolina Conference).

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, by Lorin J. Lapidus , G. Gray Wilson , Winston-Salem, and D. Martin Warf , Raleigh, for defendant-appellant The Children's Home, Incorporated (a/k/a The Children's Home, a/k/a The Crossnore School & Children's Home, a/k/a Crossnore Children's Home).


¶ 1 The Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church ("WNCCUMC") and The Crossnore School & Children's Home ("Children's Home") (together "Defendants") purport to appeal a trial court's ex parte order directing disclosure of non-joined, third-party records of alleged child sexual abuse. We dismiss...

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