NEW HANOVER COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. STEIN

No. 339A18.

840 S.E.2d 194 (2020)

The NEW HANOVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, v. Josh STEIN, in his capacity as Attorney General of the State of North Carolina; and North Carolina Coastal Federation and Sound Rivers, Inc., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed April 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stam Law Firm, PLLC, by R. Daniel Gibson and Paul Stam , Apex, for plaintiff-appellee.

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Matthew W. Sawchak , Solicitor General, James W. Doggett , Deputy Solicitor General, and Marc Bernstein , Special Deputy Attorney General, for defendant-appellant Josh Stein.

The Southern Environmental Law Center, by Mary Maclean Asbill , Brooks Rainey Pearson , and Blakely E. Hildebrand , for intervenor-appellants North Carolina Coastal Federation and Sound Rivers, Inc.

Tharrington Smith, L.L.P., Raleigh, by Lindsay Vance Smith and Deborah R. Stagner ; and Allison B. Schafer for North Carolina School Boards Association, amicus curiae.


On 25 July 2000, following a five-year period during which ruptured or flooded hog waste lagoons spilled millions of gallons of waste into North Carolina's waterways, then-Attorney General Michael F. Easley entered into an agreement with Smithfield Foods, Inc., and several of its subsidiaries.1 Pursuant...

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