William F. MAREADY, Plaintiff
v.
The CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM; The Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem; Forsyth County; The Board of County Commissioners of Forsyth County; and Winston-Salem Business, Inc., Defendants, and
State of North Carolina ex rel. Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, Defendant-Intervenor.
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March 8, 1996.
March 8, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robinson Maready Lawing & Comerford, L.L.P. by William F. Maready and Michael L. Robinson, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellant and -appellee.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C. by Roddey M. Ligon, Jr., Winston-Salem, for City and County.
P. Eugene Price, Jr., Forsyth County Attorney; Ronald G. Seeber, Winston-Salem City Attorney; and Petree Stockton, L.L.P. by J. Robert Elster and Julia C. Archer, Winston-Salem, for Winston-Salem Business, Inc., defendant-appellants and -appellees.
Michael F. Easley, Attorney General; John R. McArthur, Chief Counsel; Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Chief Deputy Attorney General; and W. Wallace Finlator, Jr., and Jane T. Friedensen, Assistant Attorneys General, Raleigh, for defendant-intervenor-appellant and -appellee.
Andrew L. Romanet, Jr., General Counsel, and Gregory F. Schwitzgebel III, Assistant General Counsel, Raleigh, for the North Carolina League of Municipalities.
James B. Blackburn III, General Counsel, and Kimberly M. Grantham, Assistant General Counsel, Raleigh, for the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, amici curiae.
Everett Gaskins Hancock & Stevens by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, Raleigh, for Piedmont Publishing Company and The North Carolina Press Association, amici curiae.
Harry Pavilak & Associates by David C. Harr, Myrtle Beach, SC, for Southeastern Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.
The Sanford Law Firm, P.L.L.C. by Ernest C. Pearson, Robert M. Jessup, Jr., and Ellen D. Andrews, Raleigh, for The North Carolina Economic Developers Association, amicus curiae.
Poyner & Spruill, L.L.P. by S. Ellis Hankins, Raleigh, for ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc., amicus curiae.
Stam, Fordham & Danchi, P.A. by Paul Stam, Jr., Apex, for John Locke Foundation, Inc., amicus curiae.
Kary L. Moss, Detroit, MI, for The Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Calumet Project for Industrial Jobs, Share the Wealth, The Grass Roots Policy Project, The Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, and The Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal, amici curiae.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
WHICHARD, Justice.
Plaintiff-appellant, William F. Maready, instituted this action against the City of Winston-Salem, its Board of Aldermen, Forsyth County, its Board of Commissioners, and Winston-Salem Business, Inc. Plaintiff contends that N.C.G.S. § 158-7.1, which authorizes local governments to make economic development incentive grants to private corporations, is unconstitutional because it violates the public purpose clause of the North Carolina Constitution...
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