Source: WRAL, 10/25/17

A trial judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging it was unconstitutional for funds that North Carolina government receives annually from pork producers through an agreement to get distributed as environmental grants. The head of the conservative-leaning Civitas Institute and the New Hanover County school board sued over the details of the 2000 settlement then-Attorney General Mike Easley's office negotiated with Smithfield Foods and subsidiaries. 

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