consumer economic protection act, debt buyer, heightened pleading, collection agency

Appellate jurisdiction defects; Untimely appeal; Rule 59(e) inapplicable to pre-trial orders; Stand-alone Rule 54(b) certifications not permitted; Inadequate statement of grounds for appellate review; Certiorari; Public official immunity; Sufficient evidence of malice to survive summary judgment

Rule 60 motion; jurisdiction

Rule 12(b)(6)motion to dismiss; Defamation; Respondeat superior; Ratification

neglect and dependency; caretaker versus custodian; right to appeal; denial of visitation; required statutory findings.

Statutory requirements for stipulations in adjudications of abuse, neglect, or dependency

Permanency Planning: Due Process Clause and parental rights, NCGS s.s. 7B-905.1, 906.1, 906.2, Visitation orders

Child custody - termination of parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)

child support; child custody; Rule 11 sanctions; Rule 59 motions

void ab initio; county director of elections; failure to exhaust administrative and judicial review; N.C.G.S. 163-22(l)

average weekly wages; indefinite employment end date; results fair and just

motion to suppress; reasonable suspicion; traffic stop

Rape; kidnapping; plain error; occasional references to victim by prosecutor and witnesses during trial; sufficiency of evidence of separate restraint; reasonableness of satellite-based monitoring

N.C.G.S. 15A-1242; proof of service; notice of appeal

revocation hearing, worthless check, restitution payment, misdemeanor larceny, suspended sentence, right to speak, sentencing hearing

Bail bond forfeiture; undocumented immigrant held on federal immigration charges after posting bond; statutory precondition of release from State custody in order to forfeit bail bond

satellite-based monitoring; State v. Grady; remand for additional findings of fact

jury instructions; plain error