adequate evidence to support the DHC's findings of fact, and the findings of fact adequately support the conclusions of law where Defendant entered into a representation agreement with brothers who did not have the capacity to understand the agreement due to their low IQs and adaptive functioning deficits

Administrative claims; dismissal for failure to exhaust administrative remedies; defamation claim; barred by sovereign immunity

Referee's Report, Order on Remand

Interlocutory appeal; substantial right; demonstration of prejudice

Rule 3.1; neglected juveniles; appellate jurisdiction; elimination of reunification from permanent plan; findings of fact

NCGS 7B-906.2; 3.1

neglect, dependency, adjudication, juvenile, Rule 3.1

subject matter jurisdiction under the UCCJEA; trial court erred in concluding that it had home state jurisdiction under the UCCJEA because child's absence from Texas was temporary

Opportunity Scholarship Program; Lower-income families may receive scholarships from the State to attend private school; Constitutional challenge; As-applied challenge; Facial challenge; Subject matter jurisdiction; Breadth of the remedy requested, not what is pleaded in the complaint, is controlling in determining whether the challenge is facial or as-applied.

Governmental immunity; Qualified immunity; Governmental in nature vs. Proprietary in nature; N.C. Gen. Stat § 160A-296; Affirmative duty; Roadway obstructions; Tree ordinance; Waiver of governmental immunity; Liability insurance; Insurance policy effect on the defense of governmental immunity; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-435; Summary judgment.

Property distribution agreement; Applicability of foreign law; Constructive trust; Implied constructive trust; Express trust; General warranty deed; Land contract; Chain of title; Ownership of property.

Dismissal; pro se appellant; substantial failure to comply with the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure; default under non-jurisdictional Rules 3, 9, 26, and 28.

Legionnaire's Disease; Insurance Policy's Fungi or Bacteria Exclusion; Insurance Policy's Consumption Exception; Summary judgment; Interlocutory appeal; Construction and interpretation of an insurance contract is a question of law; Insurer's duty to defend; Duty to indemnify.

Legal malpractice; easements of record; construction of deeds

trial court did not err in awarding condemnation proceeds to lessee

Intestate Succession, Ambiguous Will, Real Property

Possession of marijuana; hemp; sufficiency versus admissibility; remedies on appeal

Assault inflicting serious bodily injury; sufficiency of evidence of serious bodily injury

no plain error where an officer testified to the contents of a search warrant and the search warrant/affidavit were entered into evidence; motion to dismiss properly denied where there was sufficient evidence that the green leafy substance seized was marijuana

officer approaching the defendant in police cruiser with blue lights flashing while blocking the only way for the defendant to leave was not a situation in which a reasonable person would feel free to leave and constituted a seizure under the Fourth Amendment