Action under N.C. Wage & Hour Act for payment of patent bonuses to former employee; whether employee was entitled to elect to rescind certain patent assignments in lieu of damages awarded by a jury and the trial court.

Whether Town of Carthage has municipal authority to charge impact fees on landowners for future water and sewer system expansion when an owner subdivides its property.

Whether the Court of Appeals has subject matter jurisdiction to issue a writ of certiorari to review a trial court's order granting defendant appropriate relief on the trial court's own motion.

In applying federal housing and case law, whether a public housing authority must exercise discretion in pursuing eviction of tenant for a lease violation; whether proof that eviction is not unconscionable is required in a summary ejectment proceeding under North Carolina law.

Whether the six-year statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging injury to incorporeal hereditaments barred plaintiff's action to enforce its easement rights against an alleged encroachment by defendant.

Action under the State Tort Claims Act to recover for wrongful deaths resulting from a motor vehicle collision at an intersection; appeal from Industrial Commission's decision and order awarding damages to decedents' estates; whether DOT's failure to install a traffic signal at the intersection was a proximate cause of the wreck; whether the intentional acts of the drivers of two speeding vehicles that directly caused the collision insulated DOT from liability.

Whether the Court of Appeals majority erred in affirming the trial court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained via a strip search.

Whether the trial court's findings of fact supported its conclusions of law that respondent-father's parental rights should be terminated under N.C.G.S. § 7B-1111(a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(5).

Appeal from conviction for common law obstruction of justice, as elevated to a felony under N.C.G.S. § 14-3(b); whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss based on insufficient evidence.

Whether a noncitizen who pleaded guilty to a deportable crime but claimed that he was not correctly advised by counsel of the immigration consequences of his plea should be allowed to withdraw it; application of U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky.