Adjudicatory and dispositional order awarding child's custody to father; trial court's failure to meet time limit and hearing requirements of N.C.G.S. § 7B-807(b); proper remedy is mandamus

Workers' Compensation; whether employer contributions to employee pension and 401(k) account should be included when calculating plaintiff's average weekly wage under N.C.G.S. § 97-2(5)

Failure by tomacco manufacturer to make required payments into State-qualified escrow fund; Rules 12(b)(6) dimissal of claims against company owner based on relation-back doctrine and civil conspiracy

First-degree murder (capital/death)

Alleged traffic violation; reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle; motion to suppress evidence seized in subsequent search

Unemployment insurance eligibility; disqualification due to discharge for alleged misconduct; standard of judicial review of Employment Sec. Comm'n decision denying benefits

Workers' Compensation; whether school teacher's generalized anxiety disorder is a compensable occupational disease

Appeal to Property Tax Comm'n from assessment of unpaid back taxes plus interest on a residence; immaterial irregularities under N.C.G.S. § 105-394

Terminationof parentalrights; whether service of process was ineffective, thereby depriving trial court of subject matter jurisdiction

Title to real property; whether trial court made sufficient findings of fact concerning defendant's adverse possession claim

Constitutionality of ordinance barring all registered sex offenders from town parks

Motor vehicle wreck; application of State v. Fuller to denial of defendant's motion to continue on grounds of alleged insufficient notice of expert testimony to be offered on defendant's BAC level using retrograde extrapolation method

N.C.G.S. § 14-27.4; sexual acts against a child; whether indictments charging defendant with two separate offenses related to the same transaction and were thus multiplicious

Felony murder; whether trial court correctly refused to instruct on lesser-included offense

New Trial; Defendant's motion for appropriate relief dismissed as moot

Traffic stop; reasonable suspicion to continue investigation after conclusion of initial stop; motion to suppress evidence seized in subsequent search

Erroneous jury instruction on rape/acting in concert; plain error review; applicability of State v. Graham

Medical malpractice; sufficiency of expert testimony on proximate cause