ORDER
Upon consideration of the conditional petition as to additional issues filed by Defendants (Alamance, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Davidson, Duplin, Durham, and Edgecombe Counties) in this matter for discretionary review as to additional issues 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 27th day of March 2003.