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STATE EMPL. ASS'N v. DEPT. OF STATE TREAS.

No. 487A09.

695 S.E.2d 91 (2010)

STATE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC. v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF STATE TREASURER and Richard H. Moore, in his capacity as Treasurer of the State of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blanchard, Miller, Lewis & Styers, P.A., by E. Hardy Lewis, for plaintiff-appellant.

Shanahan Law Group, PLLC, by Kieran J. Shanahan and Steven K. McCallister; and Joyce Rutledge, Legal Counsel, Retirement Systems Division, Department of State Treasurer, for defendant-appellees.

Bussian Law Firm, PLLC, by John A. Bussian, for North Carolina Press Association, and Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., by Mark J. Prak, for North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, amici curiae.

BRADY, Justice.

One of the earliest historians to comment on the "great experiment" that is America noted that our nation's political structure rests on the fundamental "principle of the sovereignty of the people." 1 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 9, 40 (Henry Reeve trans., Arlington House 1966) (1835). In harmony with this principle, the North Carolina General Assembly recognized in the Public Records Act that "[t]he public records and public...

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