
    Lessie J. DUNN and Erwin W. Cook, Jr., individually and on behalf of a class of all others similarly situated v. The STATE of North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Revenue and E. Norris Tolson, as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue.
    No. 605PA06.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    May 3, 2007.
    Gregory P. Roney, Assistant Attorney General, for State of NC.
    John R. Wylie, David J. Guin, Birmingham, AL, Tammy Stokes, Stephen Dampier, Norman Smith, Jack E. Thornton, Jr., Winston-Salem, Arthur T. Susman, for Dunn, et al.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 21st day of November 2006 by Defendants in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 3rd day of May 2007."

Therefore the case is docketed as of the date of this order's certification. Briefs of the respective parties shall be submitted to this Court within the times allowed and in the manner provided by Appellate Rule 15(g)(2).  