Summary judgment; negligence-premises liability; denial of motion to strike; Legionnaires' disease; Vacation Rental Act, NCGS 42A-1, et seq.; waiver of arguments; proximate cause.

Office of Administrative Hearings; substantial prejudice; certificate of need; department of health and human services; standard of review; comparative analysis; MRI; agency; criteria; conforming; deference

First-degree murder; defense of habitation, NCGS 14-51.2; self-defense; improper injection of race; prosecutor's closing argument; new trial; jury instructions; NC Pattern Instruction Crim.- 308.80 - Curtilage.

corpus delicti; foreign birth certificate; authentication; hearsay; satellite-based monitoring; unpreserved Fourth Amendment challenge

Trial Calendar in Criminal Cases; Request for Continuance; Harmless Error; Request to Present Rebuttal Witness

First-degree kidnapping with firearm enhancement; motion to dismiss; release in a safe place, escape.

Counsel's Admission of Client's Guilt; Habitual Misdemeanor Assault on a Female; State v. Harbison; Closing Argument; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Motion for Appropriate Relief

waiver of counsel, forfeiture of counsel

Indictment; Capable of Owning Property, Corporation.

notice of intent to prove aggravating factors, clerical errors, ineffective assistance of counsel

Child Support Guidelines
Gross Income
Extraordinary Expenses
Deviating from the Guidelines

Color of Title, Easement, Summary Judgment.

Termination of Parental Rights, cessation of reunification efforts, adjudication, N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 7B-1111(a)(6)

Wills, property rights, life estate, remaindermen, timber rights, trover, indemnity

Statutory sexual offense; attempted statutory sex offense.

motion to suppress; community caretaking doctrine; traffic stop, DWI

guilty plea; Alford plea

Motion to Dismiss; Habitual misdemeanor assault; Two convictions from one action.

Aggravating factors; notice; DWI