Plain error review of convictions for multiple sexual offenses with a child; whether the trial court erred in using the term victim to instruct the jury, in conformity with the Pattern Jury Instructions

Motion to suppress evidence of DWI; whether the fireman who stopped defendant's vehicle was acting as a government agent or a private citizen; if the former, whether the stop violated defendant's constitutional rights

Interlocutory appeal; whether the trial court erred in denying plaintiffs' motion for class certification of their inverse condemnation claim

Whether a person can be convicted of possessing marijuana in a local confinement facility under N.C.G.S. ? 90-95(e)(9) after having been involuntarily brought into the facility following an arrest

Whether, after holding that the State presented insufficient evidence to convict defendant of second-degree kidnapping, the COA correctly declined to consider whether defendant committed the lesser included offense of attempted second-degree kidnapping

Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's decedent, an employee of a temporary agency that assigned him to work at a County facility, was also a County employee under the special employment doctrine

Whether DSS can voluntarily dismiss a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect before an adjudication hearing is held; interpretation of N.C. R. Civ. P. 41(a) in conjunction with N.C.G.S. ? 7B-201(a)

Whether the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors exceeded its statutory authority or violated the due process rights of a licensee and his company by disciplining them for violating the Board's professional conduct rules

Firearms possession charge; admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) about defendant's previous arrest; whether defendant properly preserved the issue he argued on appeal

On remand; whether trial court erred in granting defendant's pretrial motions to suppress and to dismiss the charge of resisting a public officer

Whether indictments charging Jones with obtaining property by false pretenses and charging his codefendant with trafficking in stolen identities were properly dismissed by the trial court; whether the State offered sufficient proof of identity theft to support Jones's conviction for that offense

Whether the six year statute of repose applicable to a homeowners' association's claim for negligent road construction is tolled by N.C.G.S. ? 47F-3-111(c) until the period of declarant control terminates

Exemption of low-income housing project from ad valorem taxation under N.C.G.S. ?? 105-278.6(a)(8) and -277.16

Action to recover balance due on a purchase money promissory note and secured by a purchase money deed of trust; trial court's grant of partial summary judgment for amount due on note; whether the trial court made an error of law for which defendant is entitled to amendment of the partial summary judgment order

Whether a defendant's Confrontation Clause rights were violated when a witness who did not conduct tests identifying a substance as opium testified to the results of an analysis done by a nontestifying chemist; application of the waiver provisions of N.C.G.S. ? 90-95(g)

Termination of parental rights proceedings; whether the trial court?s permanency planning review order relieving DSS from further reunification efforts with the children?s mother contained sufficient findings of fact to satisfy the requirements of N.C.G.S. ? 7B-507(b)(1)