motion for summary judgment, premises liability

Juvenile delinquency; adjudication and disposition; NCGS 2405(4) privilege against self-incrimination; required findings of fact.

Disposition order; guardianship; abuse of discretion; nonrelative placement; kinship placement; nonsecure custody

neglect adjudication of newborn; sufficiency of the evidence to support findings of fact; sufficiency of findings to support conclusions of law

? juvenile adjudicated delinquent
? trial court failed to address mandated inquiries before accepting juvenile's admission pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-2407(a) (2019)
? reversed and remanded

unchallenged findings of fact supported conclusions of law; no abuse of discretion when ceasing reunification efforts with Respondent-Father

temporary suspension of supervised visitation; COVID-19; costs of visitation

Declaratory judgment by insurer; personal injury lawsuits; duty to defend; US Driver's Privacy Projection Act; construing insurance policies; defined terms; plain meaning.

Child support; interlocutory appeal from discovery sanctions; lack of appellate jurisdiction

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction

Tortious interference with prospective economic advantage; summary judgment; Rules of Appellate Procedure; substantial and gross violations.

Worker's Compensation; NCGS 97-25(f); NCGS 97-2(19); NCGS 97-88.1; frivolous appeal; medical compensation; attorney's fees; abuse of discretion; cross appeal.

right to elective share determination proper by clerk of superior court

Kidnapping; sufficient evidence of separate confinement or restraint apart from that inherent in underlying assaults; sufficient evidence of each alternative theory of purpose for kidnapping; challenge to instruction that knife was deadly weapon as matter of law; requirement that evidentiary challenges show prejudice

motion to suppress; probable cause; staleness of information in affidavit; trafficking

DWI, Motion to Suppress; Probable Cause

jury instructions; lesser-included offense; involuntary manslaughter

insufficient evidence of every essential element for the offense of breaking or entering a motor vehicle

Arson; motion to dismiss; application of requirement that defendant burned the dwelling house of another where other inhabitant was co-conspirator in arson plan; admission of expert testimony on fire investigation and cause of fire; Rule 702 reliability determination; jury instructions on insurance fraud; plain error; sufficiency of evidence to support restitution

Admissibility of lay witness identifications, Rule of Evidence 701; sufficient evidence of felony larceny; restitution, N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1340.34, N.C. Gen. Stat. 1340.36, review of ability to pay prior to ordering restitution.