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TOWN OF BOONE v. STATE

No. 93A15-2.

794 S.E.2d 710 (2016)

TOWN OF BOONE, Plaintiff v. STATE of North Carolina, Defendant, County of Watauga, Intervenor-Defendant.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed December 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., by Daniel F.E. Smith , Jim W. Phillips, Jr. , Greensboro, and Julia C. Ambrose , Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Lauren M. Clemmons , Special Deputy Attorney General, for defendant-appellant.

Eggers, Eggers, Eggers & Eggers, Boone, by Stacy C. Eggers, IV , for intervenor-defendant-appellant.

In this case we consider whether the General Assembly may withdraw the previous extension of a town's jurisdiction beyond its corporate limits and return governance to the county. The first clause of Article VII, Section 1 of our state constitution recognizes the historic plenary authority of the General Assembly to provide for the...

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