North Carolina Department of Correction

<bold>1. Appeal and Error — record and brief —</bold> <bold>multiple violations</bold> <block_quote> Although not dispositive, the Department of Correction violated the Rules of Appellate Procedure by submitting an unmanageable record with an inadequate index; by placing its assignments of error at the wrong point in the record and not including any record references; by including legal argument with<page_number>Page 124</page_number> citations with its "non-argumentative" summary of the facts; and by not including pertinent record page numbers with the reference to assignments of error in the brief. DOC's conditional motion to amend the record and brief was not sufficient to remedy all of the violations.</block_quote> <bold>2. Appeal and Error — appealability — denial</bold> <bold>of stay — interlocutory order</bold> <block_quote> An appeal was interlocutory where the matter arose from a termination of workers' compensation benefits, subsequent orders, and the denial of a request for a stay. The order appealed from merely temporarily determines a portion of the action before further proceedings that may negate that order.</block_quote>