
    Rodney K. ADAMS, Elizabeth I. Allen, Joseph J. Bateman, William Paul Bateman, Gilbert A. Breedlove, Debra D. Carswell, Jason Gray Cheek, Christopher E. Duckworth, Bryan G. Farley, Melissa Ferrel, James Robert Freeman, Joshua Phillip Grant, Wanda M. Hammock, Marlene Hammond, Thomas Murphy Harris, Ronald E. Hodges, Thomas W. Holland, Gary H. Littleton, Linda B. Long, Pansy K. Martin, Sharon S. McLaurin, Bruce A. McPherson, Thomas G. Miller, Jeffrey Mitchell, Donald D. Paschall, Sr., Robert Warren Pearce, Connie C. Peele, Julian R. Poteat, Margaret L. Rathbone, Ronald Raymond Roberts, Jr., Rae Renee Rothrock, Suzanne Sheehan, Susan B. Smevog, Kenneth Spears, Steven R. Storch, Cecil Lynn Webb, Emily Alicia Westover, William Eric Whitten, and William T. Winslow, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons v. The STATE of North Carolina, Patrick L. McCrory, Governor of the State of North Carolina, in his official capacity, Lee Harris Roberts, State Budget Director, in his official capacity, and Dr. Linda Morrison Combs, State Controller, in her official capacity
    No. 355P16
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    August 17, 2017
    Frederick S. Barbour, Attorney at Law, W. Scott Jones, Attorney at Law, Asheville, David A. Wijewickrama, Attorney at Law, Waynesville, for Adams, Rodney K., et al.
    Marc Bernstein, Special Deputy Attorney General, for State of North Carolina, et al.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 26th of September 2016 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 17th of August 2017."  