Workplace Injury, Industrial Commission

subject matter jurisdiction of North Carolina Industrial Commission

UCCJEA; subject-matter jurisdiction

Juvenile neglect adjudication and disposition; ambiguity in dispositional order; failure to address reunification efforts with respect to respondent-father

Distribution of food with foreign object, juvenile, plain error

Power of Sale; Non-Judicial Foreclosure; Deed of Trust; Evidentiary Burden

Juvenile delinquency; sexual battery; sufficient evidence of force; statutory duty of trial court to advise juvenile of right against self-incrimination

local government; utility regulation; prospective use charges for water and sewer services in excess of statutory authority

Ecclesiastical Entanglement Doctrine; Defamation; First Amendment

child custody; reunification therapy; findings of fact

amending declaration; developer; reasonableness; summary judgment

child custody, contempt

family law; equitable distribution, alimony, and attorney's fees; sufficiency of findings to support alimony award; sufficiency of findings to support attorney's fee award

Declaratory judgment - real property rights; real covenants; contract interpretation; N.C.G.S. 47-F-1-103

hearsay, best evidence rule, Allen charge, plain error, felony possession of stolen goods

N.C.G.S. 15A-1214, jury selection, reopen voir dire

First-degree forcible rape; first-degree forcible sexual offense; sufficiency of evidence of threat to use dangerous weapon; victim's reasonable belief defendant threatened her with deadly weapon; admission of 404(b) evidence of prior sexual assaults; challenge to closing arguments

Murder; motion to suppress cell phone records; failure to preserve suppression argument by objection at trial; ineffective assistance of counsel claim not suited for review on direct appeal

constructive possession; indicia of dominion and control; exclusive possession of premises