ROYAL v. STATE

No. COA01-1311.

570 S.E.2d 738 (2002)

Randy B. ROYAL, Edwin Booth, Owen Burney, Jr., Ed Carter, Gary Grant, Aileen Ford, William Harper, Mary Jo Loftin, Daniel Mallison, Gary Phillips, Fannie Walden, Daniel Johnson Willis, the North Carolina State Conference of NAACP Branches, North Carolina Fair Share, the Concerned Citizens of Tillery, the North Carolina Alliance for Democracy, the North Carolina Waste Awareness Reduction Network, Citizens for Responsible Government of Guilford County, and the North Carolina Consumers Council v. The STATE of North Carolina and the North Carolina Board of Elections.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 15, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, L.L.P. by James G. Exum, Jr., Greensboro; National Voting Rights Institute, by Lisa J. Danetz; Gregory Luke; Harry C. Martin; Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. by Adam Stein, Chapel Hill; Advocates for Children's Services, Legal Services of North Carolina by Lewis Pitts, for plaintiff-appellants.

Attorney General Roy Cooper by Special Deputy Attorneys General James Peeler Smith and Norma S. Harrell, for defendant-appellees.


McCULLOUGH, Judge.

Plaintiffs are former or potential candidates for the General Assembly, voters, and certain public interest groups. On 28 December 1999, plaintiffs filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-245(a)(4) (2001) and the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1-253 to -267 (2001), as well as an injunction ordering defendants

to take all steps necessary...

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