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Lawsuit Filed Against North Carolina Board of Examiners for NSPS ‘Day on the Hill’ Goes Virtual!
Engineers and Surveyors NSPS News and Views April 22, 2021
North Carolina Society of Surveyors/ NSPS News and Views April 18, 2021
A lawsuit has been filed by a drone operator attesting to mapping being
free speech. NCSS is preparing a response, and NSPS leadership has been
requested to also respond.

The following is from the lawsuit document:
Plaintiffs request the following relief:
A. A judgment declaring that N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 89C-2, 89C-3(7), 89C-
23, and 89C-24 on their face and as applied to Plaintiffs and others
similarly situated violate the Speech Clause of the First Amendment to
the United States Constitution;
B. A permanent injunction prohibiting the Board from enforcing The voice of the surveying profession was heard loud
and clear in Congress this week as NSPS members
N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 89C-2, 89C-3(7), 89C-23, and 89C-24 against visited with members of their Congressional
Plaintiffs and others similarly situated for taking aerial photographs delegations as part of the virtual NSPS Day on
and for collecting, processing, disseminating, and selling images of and the Hill. More than 80 NSPS members from 40
information about land and property (including distances, coordinates, states visited more than 150 members of the U.S.
elevations, and volumes);
Senate and House of Representatives and their
C. An award of attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses in this action pursuant staff to discuss the role of the surveying profession
to 42 U.S.C. § 1988; and in legislation pending before the 117th Congress.
D. Any other legal and equitable relief as the Court may deem just and proper. Pictured here: Brian Bonds with Rep. Ralph
Copy of lawsuit can be found at: https://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/ Norman (R-SC); the Washington State delegation
with staff of Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA); and Tom
nsps/360VirtualDrone.pdf Walker with staff of Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL).

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