Breach of contract claim based on statements in a student handbook; whether the handbook creates an enforceable contract and if so, whether defendant breached it; whether the trial court erred in granting judgment on the pleadings for defendant

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence seized from a traffic stop; whether the stop was pretextual and in duration unreasonable.

Whether defendant?s employee is entitled to a complete, unredacted copy of all documents in his personnel file related to complaints filed against him; statutory interpretation of N.C.G.S. ' 160A-168

Workers' Compensation; when the Industrial Commission does not preapprove attendant care, whether the lack of such preapproval bars an employee from being reimbursed for retroactive attendant care services

Suit by investors to recover money lost in a business venture; liability of one individual defendant based on breach of fiduciary duty and piercing the corporate veil

Whether the constitutional right to a sound basic education requires the State to provide access to prekindergarten programs for all eligible, at-risk four year olds

Whether the North Carolina Felony Firearms Act, which bars certain felons from possessing firearms anywhere, is unconstitutional as applied to plaintiff

Workers' Compensation; when the Industrial Commission does not preapprove attendant care, whether the lack of such preapproval bars an employee from being reimbursed for retroactive attendant care services

Appeal from defendant's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon; whether the State presented sufficient evidence to corroborate defendant's confession.

On remand: motion to suppress; whether an initial stop by a police officer for a vehicle equipment violation had become consensual when defendant consented to a search of his vehicle

Appeal from defendant's convictions for first-degree kidnapping, second-degree rape, and second-degree sexual offense; whether the State proved that the victim was physically helpless, as required under N.C.G.S. ?? 14-27.3(a)(2) and 14-27.5(a)(2)

Products liability action; whether an appellate court has jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal from a trial court's denial of a motion to dismiss based on a statute of repose; determination of which statute of repose applies to the instant action

Whether plaintiffs whose claims were dismissed with prejudice before a final judgment was taken as to all parties should be liable for payment of costs of defending the action that were incurred after their claim was dismissed; N.C. R. Civ. P. 54(b)

Trial court's grant of summary judgment for plaintiff on its claim of materialmen's lien under N.C.G.S. ? 44A-8; whether there were genuine issues of material fact.

Whether the trial court committed plain error in admitting lay testimony identifying defendant as the perpetrator of a crime based primarily on original surveillance video footage not introduced at trial

Whether there was a fatal variance between the indictment under which defendant was charged and the trial court's instructions to the jury

Whether a DWI charge should be dismissed on double jeopardy grounds because of DMV's previous one-year suspension of defendant's commercial driver?s license following his arrest for DWI

Plain error review; whether a defendant convicted of first-degree statutory sexual offense with a child under N.C.G.S. ? 14-27.4(a)(1) should have that conviction vacated because of a variance between the language in the indictment and in the trial court's instructions to the jury