Mealey's ( November 30, 2022, 3:17 PM EST) -- ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A federal magistrate judge in North Carolina granted a joint request and stipulation to lift a stay filed by a custom homebuilder, its general contractor and a homeowning couple following the parties’ joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal of the builder and contractor’s appeal to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of an order denying their motion to compel arbitration and to dismiss the couple’s construction defects counterclaims....