Whether a statute involuntarily transferring the assets and debts of the City's water system to a metropolitan sewer authority violated Article II, Section 24 of the North Carolina Constitution.

Action by tobacco growers alleging breach of contract and other claims; whether the trial court erred in granting plaintiffs' motion for class certification.

Interlocutory appeal from decision from N.C. Business Court overruling defendant's opposition to designation of this action as a mandatory complex business case.

Whether Civil Procedure Rule 41(a)(1) applies to non-judicial foreclosure actions under power of sale; whether a lender who files two voluntary dismissals of foreclosure actions based on the same promissory note and deed of trust is barred from filing a third power-of-sale foreclosure action.

Under non-judicial foreclosure by power of sale under deed of trust, whether the successor trustee established its right to foreclose.

Review of recommendation for public reprimand.

Whether Midrex Technologies is entitled to an income and franchise tax refund as an excluded corporation as defined in N.C.G.S. 105-130.4(a)(4).

Whether the N.C. State Bar has jurisdiction to discipline a sitting judge who has already been disciplined by the Judicial Standards Commission for the same conduct while in public office.

Workers' Compensation; whether the Industrial Commission exceeded its statutory authority by adopting and utilizing Form 63, allowing employers investigating a claim to pay medical benefits only without prejudice to end further benefits if the claim is later denied.

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the magistrate had a substantial basis to find that probable cause existed to issue a warrant to search defendant's home.

Whether, in issuing a permanent no contact order under N.C.G.S. 15A-1340.50, the trial court exceeded its statutory authority by prohibiting contact with the victim's children.

Whether defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial was violated; whether excerpts from a jailhouse audiotape and transcript of a conversation between defendant and another inmate were admissible under Rule of Evidence 404(b).

Whether the movement of two victims was an integral part of an armed robbery, or sufficiently independent to permit an additional conviction for kidnapping.

First-degree murder case in which defendant unsuccessfully argued not guilty by reason of insanity; whether prosecutor in closing argument committed prejudicial error by exaggerating defendant's chance for early release from civil commitment if she were found not guilty based on insanity.

Whether a previous conviction for attempted assault can support charging defendant as an habitual felon; whether defendant should receive a new trial because the court failed to properly address an impasse that arose between defendant and his counsel at trial.

First-degree murder conviction based on felony murder rule; whether the trial court erred in not instructing the jury on lesser-included offenses; whether the trial court committed plain error in instructing the jury on the aggressor doctrine exception to defendant's claim of self-defense.

Trial court's denial of motion to suppress; whether the Court of Appeals correctly found that (1) probable cause supported the warrant to search the house at issue but (2) police exceeded the scope of the warrant by searching a car parked in the driveway that did not belong to a resident of the house searched.

Petition to terminate registration as a sex offender pursuant to N.C.G.S. 14-208.12A by a defendant who previously pleaded guilty to two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child; whether the relief sought is barred by the applicable provisions of federal law.