I'll ask the legal expert in the household. But since the law's are based on the Napoleonic Code here in La., he may not know.
I don't know anything about NC law, but it seems pretty clear that they provided inadequate supervision of a RSO, and in so doing endangered public safety in several jurisdictions.
Thousands of civil cases are brought and won on less concrete evidence than the plaintiff(s) would have here.
ETA: this is why I think NC will sit on TS if given the chance, as previously mentioned
