BAILEY v. STATE

No. 53PA96.

500 S.E.2d 54 (1998)

348 N.C. 130

James H. Pou BAILEY, A. Pilston Godwin, Harry L. Underwood, Henry L. Bridges, Rosalie T. Adams, Jesse M. Almon, Helen L. Andrews, Worth B. Skew, Billy A. Baker, Parker N. Bare, Arthur C. Beaman and Grace G. Beaman, Joseph G. Binkley, Robert L. Blevins, Ellie L. Boyles, Chancel T. Brown and Joan W. Brown, Elizabeth S. Butler, Dorothy T. Carmichael, John Carricker, Harold D. Coley, Sr., Anna L. Cooper, Charles C. Cooper and Bertie S. Cooper, T.J. Duncan and Esther P. Duncan, Dan R. Emory, Martin W. Ericson, Fred W. Gentry, Ivey B. Gordon and Izoria S. Gordon, Louis N. Gosselin, Earl T. Green, Bob Hammons, Darius B. Herring, Ray F. Holcomb, Tille M. Holcomb, Kay C. Hurt, John I. Kiger and Marie K. Kiger, Clarence T. Leinbach, Walter G. Leming and Barbara C. Leming, Yates Lowe, Harriette B. McCormick, Virginia H. Mickey, William F. Morgan, Harrietta B. McCormick, Earl Ray Parker, Calvin C. Pearce, Michael Pelech, Diane S. Peoples, Mildred R. Poindexter, Winnie D. Potts, Patsy M. Reynolds, Glenn D. Russell, Blanche S. Shipp, Clyde R. Shook, Harold E. Simpson, Sonnie B. Simpson, Lenora S. Smith, Frances J. Snow, Charles A. Speed, Justus M. Tucker, Walter P. Upright, Ralph B. Walker and Martha M. Walker, Jean A. Watson, Robert I. Weathersbee, Ruby Webster, Harry Lee Williams, Daniel W. Williams, Elizabeth H. Wilson, Wilbur G. Wilson, Ernest B. Wood, Thomas S. Worsham, Individually for the benefit and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Petitioner-Plaintiffs, and W.K. Aubry, Jr., James Bryan Barrett, Norman W. Cash, Roberta M. Cook, John Ed Davis, Daniel M. Dyson, Edwin C. Guy, Samuel L. Harmon, John Marshall Hartley, Donald Elliot Hartle, Martha M. Lawing, Douglas Lamar Mason, Delma Dalton Respass, Jr., William Elmer Riggs, Paul L. Salisbury, Jr., Richard A. Sharpe, Nelson Leroy Shearouse, Francis C. Simmons and Mary E. Simmons, Ned Raeford Smith, G. Vance Solomon and Eulalia T. Solomon, Thomas Lash Transou and Wilbur Eugene Young, Additional Petitioner-Plaintiffs, v. STATE of North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Revenue, Janice Faulkner, in her capacity as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, Harlan E. Boyles, in his capacity as Treasurer of the State of North Carolina, Respondent-Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C. by G. Eugene Boyce, Raleigh, for petitioner-appellants and -appellees.

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Senior Deputy Attorney General, Norma S. Harrell, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Marilyn R. Mudge, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent-appellants and -appellees.

Marvin Schiller, Raleigh, on behalf of The State Employees Association of North Carolina, Inc., amicus curiae.


LAKE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order entered essentially in plaintiffs' favor by the Honorable Jack A. Thompson in Superior Court, Wake County, pursuant to assignment and designation of the case as an exceptional case under Rule 2.1 of the General Rules of Practice. Following a two-week trial, including the testimony of twenty-four witnesses and 1,689 pages of transcript, and subsequent proceedings before the trial court, a final order on all issues was...

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