Speeding police car causing injury to pedestrian; gross negligence

Usurious loan origination fee; when statute of limitations accrues

Predatory lending; personal jurisdiction over nonresident assignee of mortgage note secured by property located in N.C.

Dismissal of case for discovery violation under N.C. R. Civ. P. 37

Automobile wreck; commercial general insurance policy effect of automobile exclusion clause on coverage

Condemnation action; diminished property value; evidence of lost business profits

Interpretation of consent judgment establishing power company easement

Dismissal of DSS employee with less than two years of service; whether just cause provision of State Personnel Act applies; if so, whether DSS had just cause to terminate; timeliness of appeal; back pay & attorneys' fees

On-call pay rate; sufficiency of affidavits filed in support of summary judgment motions

Possession of stolen vehicle; sufficiency of evidence

Jury's use of standard dictionary during deliberations in criminal case; use discovered after jury was discharged; whether new trial is warranted

On reconsideration; judicial determination of aggravating factor; Washington v. Recuenco

Probation revocation hearing held after expiration of probation period; application of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(f)

Plain error review; trial court's failure to instruct jury on lesser offense of conspiracy to commit common law robbery

Statutory sex offense & taking indecent liberties with a child; admission of expert medical testimony that abuse occurred without physical findings of abuse; plain error review

Motion to suppress; application of fruit of poisonous tree doctrine

First-degree murder (capital/death)

On remand; judicial determination of aggravating factors; Washington v. Recuenco

Did trial court abuse its discretion in limiting defendant's time to confer with his counsel after the close of the State's evidence?