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JOHNNY E. BREWER

    v.

CABARRUS PLASTICS, INC.

    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 146 N.C. App. 82, 551 S.E.2d 902 (2001), reversing a judgment entered 18 May 1999 and an order denying a motion for a new trial signed 17 July 1999 by Judge W. Erwin Spainhour in Superior Court, Cabarrus County,   (See footnote 1)  and remanding for a new trial. On 19 December 2001, the Supreme Court granted defendant's discretionary review of an additional issue. Heard in the Supreme Court 8 April 2003.
    Julie H. Fosbinder; and Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., by John W. Gresham, for plaintiff-appellee.

    Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., by Richard A. Vinroot and James H. Bingham, Jr., for defendant- appellant.

    The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, by Seth H. Jaffe, amicus curiae.

    PER CURIAM.

    For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, we reverse that portion of the decision of the Court of Appeals; we also conclude that our order allowing defendant's petition fordiscretionary review of an additional issue was improvidently allowed.
    The result in the Court of Appeals did not require it to reach other issues properly preserved and raised on appeal. Because we now reverse the Court of Appeals' decision as to the only issue it addressed, on remand, that court should also consider plaintiff's remaining issues.
    REVERSED IN PART; DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED IN PART.

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