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HOKE COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. STATE

No. COA08-1036.

679 S.E.2d 512 (2009)

HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al, Plaintiffs, and Asheville City Board of Education, et al, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. STATE of North Carolina; State Board of Education, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 21, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, by Robert W. Spearman, Melanie Black Dubis and Scott E. Bayzle, Raleigh; and Armstrong Law, PLLC, by H. Lawrence Armstrong, Jr., Enfield, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III, by Special Deputy Attorney General Thomas J. Ziko, for defendants-appellees.

JACKSON, Judge.

Plaintiffs—students, parents, and school boards from Hoke, Halifax, Robeson, Cumberland, and Vance Counties—appeal the trial court's order denying them attorneys' fees. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

This case originated in 1994 and became a hallmark of education law in this State.1 The North Carolina Supreme Court, in its first Leandro opinion, concluded that the North Carolina Constitution...

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