C O U R T ?
COURT TITLE Before providing the year in parenthesis, we need to ask the following question: CAN WE TELL WHAT COURT DECIDED THE CASE BY THE PUBLICATION ABBREVIATION? In the citation you are creating, the official publication abbreviaton is "N.C. App." This not only tells us the name of the publication, but the court that authored the opinion. Thus, in this citation we do NOT need to provide the court in parenthesis.