BROWN v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC

Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy, by Harvey L. Kennedy, Harold L. Kennedy, III, and Annie Brown Kennedy, for plaintiff-appellee. Smith Helms Mullis Moore, by McNeill Smith, Michael A. Gilles, and Julie C. Theall, for defendant-appellant. Lonnie B. Williams, Immediate Past President; and Young, Moore, Henderson Alvis, P.A., by Walter E. Brock, Jr., and E. Knox Proctor, for amicus curiae, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys. Anne M. Fishburne for amicus curiae N.C. Equity. Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, Harkavy Lawrence, by Martha A. Greer and Heidi G. Chapman, for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys; J. Wilson Parker, Wake Forest University School of Law, and Tharrington, Smith Hargrove, by Wade M. Smith and Burton Craige, for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amici curiae.