Whether denial of defendant's good character evidence proffered under Rule 404(a) was prejudicial error; whether the trial court erred in using the term victim to instruct the jury, in conformity with the Pattern Jury Instructions

Whether a co-guarantor on a business loan waived any rights under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act when she executed a waiver of all claims in exchange for the lender's agreement to forbear from collecting the past-due debt

Appeal from order granting rate increase to electric power company

Negligence action for a fall on the steps of a county office building; denial of summary judgment for County claiming governmental immunity defense

Borrowers' suit against lender that refinanced their home mortgage loan; summary judgment in favor of lender; whether a question of fact arose regarding the possible existence of a fiduciary relationship between borrowers and lender sufficient to support claims based on negligent misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty

Action under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act; whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the use of certain Rule 60(b) grounds to defeat enforcement of a foreign judgment in this state

Whether the Court of Appeals properly granted defendant's petition for habeas corpus because he was charged under a defective indictment for felonious failure to appear on a felony charge

Adoption proceeding; whether N.C.G.S. ? 48-3-601, as applied here to bar a putative father from being able to withhold his consent for the adoption, violates the father's constitutional due process rights

Action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief challenging town ordinances regulating towing of vehicles from private lots and banning mobile telephone use by all persons while driving a motor vehicle

Workers? Compensation; whether a previously injured worker who can now perform the duties of his former job with minor restrictions is disabled under N.C.G.S. ? 97-2(9) because he is unable to obtain employment due to the economic downturn in his industry and not because of his injury

Appeal from order granting rate increase to electric power company

Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant in the aggravated range because the evidence supporting the aggravating factor was the same evidence necessary to support an element of the underlying offense

Whether the trial court abused its discretion in revoking defendant's probation and reactivating his sentences based solely on hearsay testimony from defendant's probation officer

Appeal by defendant from trial court's judgment revoking his probation; whether defendant could challenge the validity of his underlying conviction in his appeal from the judgment revoking probation

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