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Abernathy v. Mission Health Sys., Inc.
Summary judgment; elements of Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act (REDA) claim; employer-employee relationship
Cecil Holcomb Renovations, Inc. v. L. Firm of Wilson & Ratledge, PLLC
trial court did not abuse its discretion in disqualifying counsel based on violation of Rule 4.2 of Rules of Professional conduct; trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over counterclaim for unpaid legal fees despite absence of a notification regarding state bar's fee dispute resolution program; trial court did not err or abuse its discretion by excluding certain evidence of billing practices
Coghill v. Brown
Summary ejectment; summary judgment; month-to-month tenancy
Dow-Rein v. Sarle
Personal jurisdiction; sufficiency of contacts; purposeful availment; mandate rule
Grace Ridge Gateway Terrace Durham, LLC v. Mattress Firm, Inc.
Summary ejectment; waiver; landlord and tenant.
In re E.M.
Child abuse, neglect, and dependency; Subject matter jurisdiction; Juvenile petitions.
In re L.J.J.
Adjudication Order; Controlled Substance; Sufficiency of the Evidence
In re Z.B.
abuse, neglect, and dependency; trial court's adjudication of neglect was based on more than prior adjudications of abuse and neglect of sibling
Jones v. Atlas Distribs., LLC
Personal jurisdiction; Rule 12(b)(2) dismissal; standard of review
Jones v. Brock & Scott, PLLC
Rule 12(b)(6); Motion to Dismiss; Fair Debt Collection Practices Act; North Carolina Debt Collection Act
Nehemiah v. Ameriglide, Inc.
Rule 3, Rule 9, notice of appeal
State v. Bates
Motion to suppress; Fourth Amendment; consent; apparent control
State v. English
trial court did not err in concluding defendant failed to make prima facie Batson challenge; no abuse of discretion by refusal to strike prospective jurors and give curative instruction; no error in overruling relevancy objection to expert's testimony or excluding portion of expert's report
State v. McGill
habitual larceny; essential elements; N.C. Gen. Stat. 14.72; N.C. R. App. P. 4
State v. Porter
Assault with deadly weapon; denial of motion to dismiss; self-defense; defense of habitation
State v. Thomas
capacity to proceed; competency hearing; ineffective waiver of counsel; structural error
State v. Washington
Sixth Amendment right to counsel; forfeiture of right to counsel; waiver of assigned counsel; pro se defendant; egregious and dilatory conduct; new trial.
State v. Young
indictment, lesser-included offense, swapping horses, Rule 403
Thomas v. Century Emp. Org., LLC
Workers' compensation; employer-employee relationship; special employee; NCGS 97-51; NCGS 58-48-55(a1).
Utley v. Swann's Mill Homeowners Ass'n
foreclosure sale; third-party bidder from whom plaintiff did not seek to recover damages had standing to move to dismiss plaintiff's complaint; record demonstrated that trial court did not consider outside the pleadings in granting motion to dismiss, thus not converting ruling to summary judgment; plaintiff failed to timely file an upset bid under provisions of emergency COVID-19 orders extending filing times and deadlines