Teigen v. State

KAPSNER, Justice.

[¶ 1] James Teigen, Deb Lundgren, Greg Svenningsen, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the Dakota Resource Council (collectively “plaintiff's”) appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their declaratory judgment action. Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of language in N.D.C.C. §§ 4-28-07(4) and 4-28-07.1(4) requiring the North Dakota State Wheat Commission to expend at least two mills of a wheat tax for “contract[s] for activities related to domestic wheat policy issues, wheat production, promotion, and sales” and providing “[t]he contracts may be with no more than…