Richmond County v. North Carolina Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority

I respectfully dissent from that part of the Court’s opinion which concludes that the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of Counts I and II of Chatham and Wake Counties’ complaint and Counts I, II, and IV of Richmond County’s complaint based solely on our decision in Granville Co. Bd. of Comrs. v. N.C. Haz. Waste Mgmt. Comm., 329 N.C. 615, 407 S.E.2d 785, reh’g denied, 409 S.E.2d 593 (1991) [hereinafter Granville County]. For essentially the same reasons stated by Judge Cozort in his dissenting opinion in the Court of Appeals, I do not believe that our decision in…