Workers' Compensation; Refusal to Renew

Whether plaintiffs whose claims were dismissed with prejudice before a final judgment was taken as to all parties should be liable for payment of costs of defending the action that were incurred after their claim was dismissed; N.C. R. Civ. P. 54(b)

Trial court's grant of summary judgment for plaintiff on its claim of materialmen's lien under N.C.G.S. ? 44A-8; whether there were genuine issues of material fact.

Whether the trial court committed plain error in admitting lay testimony identifying defendant as the perpetrator of a crime based primarily on original surveillance video footage not introduced at trial

Whether there was a fatal variance between the indictment under which defendant was charged and the trial court's instructions to the jury

Whether a DWI charge should be dismissed on double jeopardy grounds because of DMV's previous one-year suspension of defendant's commercial driver?s license following his arrest for DWI

Plain error review; whether a defendant convicted of first-degree statutory sexual offense with a child under N.C.G.S. ? 14-27.4(a)(1) should have that conviction vacated because of a variance between the language in the indictment and in the trial court's instructions to the jury