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

GREENE, Judge.

Plaintiffs in these consolidated cases, see N.C.R. App. P. 40 (1992) (Court on its own initiative may consolidate cases which involve common questions of law), appeal from orders dismissing all but one of plaintiffs’ claims. Defendants, upon this Court’s grant of defendants’ petition for writ of certiorari, appeal from interlocutory orders denying defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ remaining claim on the ground that it fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, N.C.G.S. § 1A-1, Rule 12(b)(6) (1990), and on ripeness grounds.

In 1987, the North Carolina General…