
    Ashley STEPHENSON, et al v. Gary O. BARTLETT, et al.
    No. 94P02-5.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    June 29, 2006.
    Thomas A. Farr, Phillip J. Strach, Charles B. Neely, Jr., Raleigh, Robert N. Hunter, Jr., Greensboro, for Stephenson, et al.
    Tiare B. Smiley, Alexander McC. Peters, Special Deputy Attorney Generals, for Bartlett, et al.
    Prior report: ___ N.C.App. ___, 628 S.E.2d 442.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the conditional petition filed on the 5th day of June 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:

"Dismissed as moot by order of the Court in conference, this the 29th day of June 2006."

Justice MARTIN recused.  