RALEIGH, NC—The NC Institute for Constitutional Law has filed a legal challenge to the state’s granting incentives to lure the company’s new data operations center in Lenior..

The suit challenges exemptions form sales and use taxes and the constitutionality of NC’s $4.8 million Job Development Investment Grant, which is contingent upon Google creating a certain number of jobs in a certain amount of time. Local incentives could boost the total offered to the search company to $242 million.

NCICL, founded by former State Supreme Court Justice Rober Orr, earlier challenged incentives offered Dell Inc. when it located an assembly plant in Winston-Salem in 2004, but the a judge dismissed the case.

Good has responded that it considers the lawsuit without merit and intends to “defend against it vigorously” and proceed with its plans for the $600 million data center that could create as many as 210 jobs in the town northwest of Charlotte once known for its furniture industry.

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