
    BOYCE & ISLEY, PLLC, Eugene Boyce, R. Daniel Boyce, Philip R. Isley, and Laura B. Isley v. Roy A. COOPER, III, the Cooper Committee, Julia White, Stephen Bryant, and Kristi Hyman.
    No. 598P02-2.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    March 4, 2004.
    R. Daniel Boyce, Pro Se.
    Philip R. Isley, Pro Se.
    Laura B. Isley, Pro Se.
    John A. Bussian, Durham, for NC Press Assn., NC Assn. Broadcast.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the conditional petition filed on the 29th day of December 2003 by Defendants in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 731, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Dismissed as Moot by order of the Court in conference, this the 4th day of March 2004."

Chief Justice LAKE and Justices PARKER and ORR recused.  