Alienation of affection; out-of-state defendant; long-arm personal jurisdiction under N.C.G.S. � 1-75.4(4)(a)

Workers' Compensation; Causation evidence

Complaint for monetary damages; whether existence of a state remedy barred by sovereign immunity can prevent assertion of a state constitutional claim for the same alleged injury

Third-party exception under N.C.G.S. � 143-215.83(b)(2)(d) to strict liability for discharging petroleum products into state waters

Whether plaintiff sufficiently alleged that she was engaged in protected activity under the State Whisleblower Act to survive a motion to dismiss

Termination of parental rights; whether failure to issue summons of TPR proceedings to children deprived trial court of subject matter jurisdiction

Whether clerk's failure to sign summonses issued in a child neglect proceeding deprived the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction over both that proceeding and a later proceeding that terminated parental rights based on the earlier finding of neglect

Termination of parental rights; whether failure to issue summons of TPR proceedings to children deprived trial court of subject matter jurisdiction

Nonjurisdictional violations of N.C. R. App. P. 10(c)(1); whether new trial is required when appellate court reverses trial court's grant of JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING THE VERDICT in defendant's favor on plaintiff's claims for fraud and UDTP

Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's deposition taken by telephone in another country complied with N.C. R. Civ. P. 28(b)(3)

Sex offender registration; whether State presented sufficient evidence that defendant changed her address within the meaning of N.C.G.S. � 14-208.11

Sufficiency of evidence that defendant constructively possessed cocaine

Motion to suppress; whether under totality of chircumstances, search of defendant's purse was governed by Fourth Amendment

First-degree murder (capital/death)

Erroneous jury instruction; omission of willfulness element of the crime for which defendant was charged and convicted; prejudice

Workers' Compensation; application of N.C.G.S. § 97-57 when an employee seeks additional benefits for the same occupational disease after entering into a final settlement agreement with the same employer and it previous workers' compensation insurer

Medical malpractice; admission of expert testimony; same or similar community standard; N.C.G.S. § 90-21.12; summary judgment

Workers' Compensation; whether Larson test bars benefits to employee who misrepresented his physical condition when he was hired