ARGUED:
Kristi Lee Graunke, ACLU OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.
Matthew Thomas Tulchin, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant. ON BRIEF: Jaclyn Maffetore, ACLU OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION, Raleigh, North Carolina; Julia Solórzano, Decatur, Georgia, Meredith B. Stewart, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Carol Brooke, Clermont Fraser Ripley, NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER, Raleigh, North Carolina; Brian Hauss, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, New York, New York;
Robert J. Willis, LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT J. WILLIS, P.A., Pittsboro, North Carolina, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Josh Stein, Attorney General, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant. Trent Taylor, FARMWORKER JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Amici Farmworker Justice, National Employment Law Project, Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, North Carolina State AFL-CIO, Student Action with Farmworkers, El Vinculo Hispano, Western North Carolina Workers' Center and North Carolina State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Raymond J. LaJeunesse, William L. Messenger, NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION, INC., Springfield, Virginia, for Amicus National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. Phillip Jacob Parker, Jr., Secretary and General Counsel, Stephen A. Woodson, Senior Associate General Counsel, NORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, INC., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Amicus North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc.