
    Charles W. STONE; Marie Stone; Mona M. Keech; Mark Dearmon; Mason P. Thomas, Jr.; Margaret Kay Hovious; Jeannette M. Dean; William R. Foster; R. Ross Hailey, Jr.; Thomas F. Eamon; Flint Benson; Donnie G. Perry; W.R. McClure; and Mary Singleton; on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. The STATE of North Carolina; Michael F. Easley, in his capacity as Governor of North Carolina; Robert Powell, in his capacity as State Controller of North Carolina; David T. McCoy, in his capacity as State Budget Officer of North Carolina; Richard H. Moore, in his capacity as Treasurer of North Carolina; and the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System of North Carolina, a body politic and corporate.
    No. 309P07.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    December 6, 2007.
    E. Hardy Lewis, Raleigh, for .Stone, et al.
    Alexander McC. Peters, Joyce Rutledge, Special Deputy Attorney Generals, Robert M. Curran, Assistant Attorney General, for State of NC, et al.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 5th day of July 2007 by Plaintiffs 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:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 6th day of December 2007."  