UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HILL

Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by J. Charles Waldrup, Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff-appellees. S.C. Kitchen, County Attorney, for defendant-appellant Alamance County. James B. Blackburn III, General Counsel, for North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and North Carolina Sheriffs' Association, amici curiae. Wendell H. Ott and Laurie S. Truesdell for The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority d/b/a Carolinas Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center, Memorial Mission Hospital, Inc., The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., and The North Carolina Hospital Association, amici curiae.