THOMAS v. N.C. DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice, P.L.L.C., by Jim D. Cooley, and North Carolina Justice Community Development Center, by William D. Rowe, for plaintiff-appellee. Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Robert J. Blum, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Elizabeth L. Oxley, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant-appellant.