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WAYNE COUNTY CITIZENS v. BOARD OF COM'RS

No. 252PA90.

399 S.E.2d 311 (1991)

328 N.C. 24

WAYNE COUNTY CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER TAX CONTROL: Robert Outlaw, individually, and as Chairman of the Wayne County Citizens Association for Better Tax Control; Joe Daughtery, individually, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the Wayne County Citizens Association for Better Tax Control; Ed Allen, Jim Barnwell, Garland Joyner, and Thomas Wooten, all individually, and as Members of the Board of Directors of the Wayne County Citizens Association for Better Tax Control v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Atlas Price, John Wooten, Betsy Johnson, Tommy Jarrett, J. Nelson Kornegay, Howard Buddy Shaw, and Jerry Braswell, all as Members of the Wayne County Board of Commissioners.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Braswell & Taylor by Roland C. Braswell, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Baddour, Parker & Hine, P.A. by E.B. Borden Parker, Goldsboro, and Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein by Charles C. Meeker, Blair Levin, and Heman R. Clark, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees.

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Douglas A. Johnston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, amicus curiae.

Hunton & Williams by William H. McBride, N.C. Ass'n of County Com'rs by James B. Blackburn III, Gen. Counsel, and N.C. League of Municipalities by S. Ellis Hankins, Gen. Counsel, for North Carolina Ass'n of County Com'rs and North Carolina League of Municipalities, Raleigh, amici curiae.

MEYER, Justice.

Plaintiffs in this action are an unincorporated group known as Wayne County Citizens Association for Better Tax Control (hereinafter "Tax Association") and individuals who are citizens, residents, and taxpayers of Wayne County acting individually and as officers and members of the Board of Directors of the Tax Association. By a complaint filed 26 January 1990, plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality...

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