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Easley takes ice bucket challenge

Former Gov. Mike Easley accepts the ice bucket challenge.

Former Gov. Mike Easley got dowsed with ice water behind the Henderson County Courthouse on Grove Street on Friday as part of the nationwide Ice Bucket Challenge.

The Ice Bucket Challenge, a fundraiser to fight ALS, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one's head or donating to the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) Association.

Easley, who served as NC Attorney General from 1993 to 2001 and as governor from 2001-2009, is in Hendersonville as co-counsel for plaintiff Billy Justus in a medical malpractice lawsuit against neurosurgeon Michael Rosner. The trial is taking place in Henderson County Superior Court.

Easley is working with Fayetteville trial lawyer Wade Byrd and Janet Ward Black, a former Miss North Carolina and an attorney in Greensboro.