community care taking exception; seizure; reasonable suspicion; NCGS § 20-16.2

Indictment

Motion to suppress; jury instructions; prior record level

criminal, motion to dismiss, actual or constructive possession, possession of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver

Common Law Robbery; Conspiracy; Rule 404(b); Video Evidence. Sentencing.

Bond forfeiture; extraordinary circumstances

Deficiency Judgment Act, Summary Judgment, Property Value.

Child custody dispute between parent and nonparent; Non-biological grandmother, intervenor, who helped raise child had standing to intervene in child custody proceedings but was not entitled to custody or visitation where intervenor failed to demonstrate that mother was unfit or acted inconsistently with her protected parental status; Mother's decision to grant exclusive custody of her child to child's biological grandmother was not conduct inconsistent with her protected status, where evidence showed intervenor had purposefully impeded mother's ability to assume her role as her child's parent, and this custodial arrangement allowed mother to assume her role as her child's mother in future.

Governmental immunity, motion to dismiss, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-167, indemnification of city employees

real estate commission, duty of good faith and fair dealing, parol evidence rule

Woodson Claim; Pleasant Claim; Summary Judgment

Land use; procedural due process; quasi-judicial and ministerial/administrative land use decisions; exercise of discretion in application of generally stated standards is quasi-judicial in nature; application of specific, neutral, and objective criteria as set out in applicable regulations is ministerial/administrative in nature

Indemnification; negligence as bar; unambiguous contract; license; summary judgment de novo review.

parents constitutionally protected status, custody dispute between parent and non-parent, substantial change of circumstances, juvenile proceeding

Termination of Parental Rights; Permanency Planning.

attorney discipline, Rule 11 sanctions, guardianship, incompetency, guardian ad litem appointment

Rule 60(b), domestic violence protective order

Workers' Compensation

NCGS 20-38.7(a); NCGS 15A-1432; Record on Appeal; Jurisdiction; State's appeal of Suppression to Superior Court.