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

Whether a person can be convicted of possessing marijuana in a local confinement facility under N.C.G.S. ? 90-95(e)(9) after having been involuntarily brought into the facility following an arrest

Whether, after holding that the State presented insufficient evidence to convict defendant of second-degree kidnapping, the COA correctly declined to consider whether defendant committed the lesser included offense of attempted second-degree kidnapping

Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's decedent, an employee of a temporary agency that assigned him to work at a County facility, was also a County employee under the special employment doctrine

Whether DSS can voluntarily dismiss a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect before an adjudication hearing is held; interpretation of N.C. R. Civ. P. 41(a) in conjunction with N.C.G.S. ? 7B-201(a)

Whether the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors exceeded its statutory authority or violated the due process rights of a licensee and his company by disciplining them for violating the Board's professional conduct rules

Firearms possession charge; admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) about defendant's previous arrest; whether defendant properly preserved the issue he argued on appeal

On remand; whether trial court erred in granting defendant's pretrial motions to suppress and to dismiss the charge of resisting a public officer

Whether indictments charging Jones with obtaining property by false pretenses and charging his codefendant with trafficking in stolen identities were properly dismissed by the trial court; whether the State offered sufficient proof of identity theft to support Jones's conviction for that offense