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

Immediate appeal of interlocutory orders; Sovereign immunity

Ex parte domestic violence protective orders; competency of evidence to support a domestic violence protective order