Adjudication of abuse and neglect of a juvenile resulting from alleged sexual abuse by the child's caretaker; interpretation of definition of caretaker in the Juvenile Code.

Whether ACIS, a database maintained and controlled by AOC but totally composed of data entered by county clerks of court, is a public record; whether AOC is the custodian of ACIS.

Appeal from portion of ratemaking order approving an accelerated cost recovery mechanism for water and sewer system infrastructure improvements by Aqua N.C., Inc.

Motion to suppress evidence; whether probable cause existed to issue a search warrant for defendant's residence.

Whether the trial court committed prejudicial error in denying defendant's requests to introduce evidence that might show bias by a key witness against him.

Whether, in defendant's second criminal trial, the trial court committed prejudicial error by admitting evidence concerning civil complaints that had been filed and a civil judgment that had been entered against defendant; N.C.G.S. 1-149

Whether the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides educational scholarships to eligible children in lower-income families to attend non-public schools, violates the North Carolina Constitution.

Whether the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides educational scholarships to eligible children in lower-income families to attend non-public schools, violates the North Carolina Constitution.

Whether appeal from an administrative agency's order on petition for judicial review of EMC's declaratory ruling interpreting application of groundwater protection rules to power plant coal ash ponds that received initial permits to operate before 1984 should be dismissed for mootness.

Disposition order setting conditions for mother's visitation with minor children under N.C.G.S. 7B-905.1; whether the trial court erred in imposing costs of supervised visitation on the mother without first determining the mother's ability to pay those costs

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court abused its discretion by failing to hold a hearing to inquire whether a GAL should be appointed to represent the mother pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1101.1(c)

Workers' Compensation; whether injury sustained by an employee while working at another business arose out of and occurred in the course of his employment with defendant

Application of N.C.G.S. 14-306.4, prohibiting operation of electronic machines that conduct or promote a sweepstakes through use of an entertaining display, to plaintiffs' marketing system; whether the challenged system is exempt because it involves a game of skill, rather than a game of chance; whether the trial court erred in granting plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of gambling laws against them; whether appellate court has jurisdiction to hear sheriff's interlocutory appeal from the preliminary injunction because the appeal affects a substantial right

Whether the trial court committed prejudicial error by giving a jury instruction that constituted an opinion on a question of fact in violation of N.C.G.S. 15A-1222 and 15A-1232

Whether an indictment charging defendant with larceny was fatally defective because it did not allege that the church co-owner of the property has the legal ability to own property; whether the State presented sufficient evidence of defendant's intent to commit felony larceny by showing that he made an unlawful entry and property was later found missing from the premises

Reasonable suspicion to make investigatory stop of defendant; motion to suppress evidence seized as a result

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the district court had authority to order a general search for weapons of defendant's person, home, and vehicle pursuant to an ex parte Domestic Violence Order of Protection

Plain error review; whether defendant should receive a new trial in light of the trial court's unobjected-to failure to deliver a supplemental guilty knowledge instruction.