Plain error review; whether defendant should receive a new trial in light of the trial court's unobjected-to failure to deliver a supplemental guilty knowledge instruction.

Reasonable suspicion to make investigatory stop of defendant; motion to suppress evidence seized as a result

Trial court's instructions to a deadlocked jury in violation of N.C.G.S. 15A-1235; whether defendant waived appellate review of his argument that the instructions violated Art. I, sec. 24 of the N.C. Constitution; plain error review

Review of zoning board's denial of a special use permit to open a medical clinic in a residentially zoned area

Workers' compensation claims for injuries sustained by employees while working out of state; benefits were paid by employer's insurer that provided coverage in that state under that state's workers' compensation laws; when employees later 'transferred' their claims to the N.C. Industrial Commission, whether employer's different insurer responsible for claims in North Carolina is liable for these plaintiffs' claims filed in this state

Condemnation action; whether an inverse taking occurred based on the Town's impairment of defendant's vested right to develop property under an approved subdivision plan; extent of area affected by the taking/unity of ownership of adjacent parcels

Law of the case in workers' compensation cases

Property owner's association; derivative litigation; standing; constructive fraud

Rule 54(b) Certification; Interlocutory Appeal

Equitable distribution; Jurisdictional authority; L.L.C. that has not been made a party to the action

interest on costs; Rule 9(j) certification

Rules of Civil Procedure (Rule 41); Deeds of Trust/Mortgages; Real Property; Res Judicata; Statute of Limitations; Foreclosure by Power of Sale

Applicability of Rules of Civil Procedure in foreclosure by power of sale proceedings

Use of property for religious purposes; N.C. Gen. Stat. 105-278.3

Indemnification; Summary Judgment

Career status law: N.C. Gen. Stat. 115C-325; Career status repeal: 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 360 sec. 9.6-9.7; U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 10; N.C. Const. art. I, sec. 19

Absolute divorce, divorce from bed and board, mootness, child custody, child support, divisible property

Institutionalization; Disability, Title II

First-degree murder; non-prejudicial error