Complex sentence: The North Carolina Court of Appeals in Long v. University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1995), found, however, that verbal agreements must be made in an official capacity in order to be binding (Bowden, 2007).
Split into simpler sentences: The North Carolina Court of Appeals in Long v. University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1995). They must be made in an official capacity, however, to be binding (Bowden, 2007).