Priority of liens on real property; applicability of N.C.G.S. 45-37(b)

Whether internal documents produced by a hospital review team in response to an operating room fire are protected from disclosure by the medical review privilege contained in N.C.G.S. 131E-76 and 131E-95

Whether a limited liability company must be represented by legal counsel in administrative hearings before the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles

Whether state law requires that corporations be represented by legal counsel in administrative hearings before the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles

When underinsured motorist coverage is triggered when an insured is injured in a motor vehicle accident caused by multiple drivers

Whether a minor injured in a wreck was a resident of the grandfather's household for purposes of UIM coverage under an auto liability policy issued to her grandfather.

Whether a property owner met the requirements under N.C.G.S. 113A-120.1 to obtain a variance from the Coastal Res. Comm'n permitting the applicant to maintain sandbags to prevent erosion on the oceanfront side of his condo complex

Appeal from order on remand granting general rate increase to electric power company

MAR alleging ineffective assistance of counsel; whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to separate punishments for second-degree rape and statutory rape based on the same single act with the victim

Motion to suppress evidence; whether an affidavit based upon an anonymous tip established probable cause to issue a search warrant.

Appeal from order applying defendant's accumulated sentence reduction credits to make him eligible for unconditional release under N.C.G.S. 14-2, which defined the life sentence imposed on defendant as an eighty-year sentence

When defendant was charged with attempted first-degree murder, whether the State presented sufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation

First-degree murder conviction; sentence of life imprisonment without parole; application of N.C.G.S. 14-5.2; whether the trial court committed prejudicial error by not instructing the jury on accessory before the fact to first-degree murder

Whether defendant's convictions for second-degree sexual offense and crime against nature subjected him to double jeopardy; whether trial court erred in denying defense counsel's motion for a mistrial on grounds that he had a conflict of interest

Dismissal of defendant's appeal from the trial court's failure to individually poll jurors on their verdict regarding the existence of aggravating factors; whether that issue was preserved for appellate review

Motion to suppress evidence; whether a police dog's instinctive and undirected action that brings evidence not otherwise in plain view into plain view constitutes a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment or Article I, Section 20 of the North Carolina Constitution

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing a lower court order holding defendant-attorney in criminal contempt of court; whether the order was fatally deficient under N.C.G.S. 5A-15

Felony sentencing for a crime committed in North Carolina; whether the State proved that a prior offense for which defendant was convicted in Tennessee was substantially similar to a North Carolina offense for purposes of assigning defendant a sentencing point based on his prior record level under N.C.G.S. 15A-1340.14(e).

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