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North Carolina food truck owners sue town over exclusionary food truck law

August 22, 2018

A group of North Carolina food truck owners and the Institute for Justice have filed a lawsuit to strike down a ban on out-of-town food trucks imposed by Carolina Beach, North Carolina, according to a press release. 

People who have owned restaurants in Carolina Beach for more that a year are permitted to own food trucks, but no one else can, meaning that dozens of food trucks operating in the greater Wilmington, North Carolina, area are effectively locked out of town, the release stated.

"The North Carolina Constitution makes it illegal for government to protect businesses from competition," Johanna Talcott, an Institute for Justice attorney, said in the press release. "The government cannot block out-of-town businesses just to favor businesses already in the town. We will continue to fight for food truck owners and their constitutional right to earn an honest living."