Saturday, December 1, 2007

Neighbors group can't sue

A community group can raise money for its members to sue Iredell County and the McLain family over a proposed biodiesel plant site, but the group can’t be a plaintiff in the lawsuit, a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill law professor said.

If Iredell Neighbors for Rural Life, which is one of 24 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, is not registered with the N.C. Secretary of State’s Office, it has no legal standing, UNC Professor Tom Hazen said. The remaining plaintiffs in the lawsuit to reverse the Iredell County commissioner’s Aug. 7 decision to rezone 7.88 acres of land from single family residential to heavy manufacturing to accommodate the plant are individuals.

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