trial court did not err in awarding summary judgment in favor of creditor whose wired funds lender refused to accept, in breach of agreement to satisfy obligation for less than originally agreed, or for awarding creditor statutory damages and ordering creditor to cancel liens on deeds of trust securing obligation

summary judgment, retaliatory eviction, protected act, summary ejectment, notice to vacate

service of process

motion to dismiss, interlocutory appeal, right to jury trial, Rule 39(a), Rule 39(b)

Lack of meaningful appellate review; Failure to include transcript; Written Order Controls; Jurisdiction; Rule 12(b)(2); Rule 12(b)(6).

Abuse; neglect; cessation of reunification efforts at initial disposition under N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-901(c)(1); sufficiency of findings of conduct that increased enormity or added to injurious consequences of abuse or neglect

Juvenile petition; Self-incrimination; Privilege against self-incrimination; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-2405; 5th Amendment.

Department of Social Services, abuse and neglect, adjudicatory grounds, felony history

termination of parental rights, willful abandonment

Foreclosure, NC. R. Civ. P. 60(b); void order; trustee neutrality; notice of neutrality.

Rule 3.1(e), no-merit brief, neglected juvenile.

sovereign immunity, implied-in-fact contract, 12(b)(6), Corum

award for attorney's fees; reasonableness; findings of fact; compliance with appellate court mandate on remand

Derivative jurisdiction, properly compiled record on appeal, appeal dismissed.

probable cause

plain error, prior record level, sentencing classification.

petition for writ of certiorari, structured sentencing act, mitigating factors, presumptive range