Personal Jurisdiction; Minimum Contacts; Rule 12(b)(2) motion; Rule 12(b)(6) motion; Choice of Law Provision; N.C. Gen Stat. § 53-190; Predatory Lending; Fundamental Public Policy.

Batson objection; peremptory strikes; discrimination

Objection to State closing argument, jury instruction on flight, identity of perpetrator, remand to correct clerical error

Defective indictment, armed to the terror of the public, public highway, lack of jurisdiction

Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Prior Convictions; Plain Error; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8C-1 Rule 402; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8C-1 Rule 404(b); Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Motion for Appropriate Relief

habitual impaired driving; suppression; eyewitness testimony; due process, eyewitness identification reform act; sufficiency; jury instruction on flight

child custody; motion to modify custody; relocation; Ramirez-Barker v. Barker; findings of fact; conclusions of law

Rule 12(b)(3) motion; Venue; Forum Selection Provision; Personal Jurisdiction; Minimum Contacts; Rule 12(b)(2) motion; Rule 12(b)(6) motion; Choice of Law Provision; N.C. Gen Stat. § 53-190; Predatory Lending; Fundamental Public Policy.

Usury Law; NCCFA; UDTPA; Choice-of-Law, Choice-of-Venue, Personal Jurisdiction; Motion to Dismiss

N.C. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6); motion to dismiss; personal jurisdiction; minimum contacts

Usury Law; NCCFA; UDTPA; Choice-of-Law; Choice-of-Venue; Personal Jurisdiction; Motion to Dismiss

Child custody; third party standing; constitutional right to parent; inconsistent parental acts; delegation of parental authority; criminal convictions

motion to dismiss; common-law claim for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy; preemption; statute of limitations

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by denying respondent's motion to continue.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by denying respondent-father's motion to continue; whether the trial court properly concluded respondents' parental rights were subject to termination under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1).

Whether the trial court erred in ceasing reunification efforts; whether the trial court made the required findings under N.C.G.S. 7B-906.2(d) to eliminate reunification from the permanent plan.

Appeal from orders terminating respondent-mother's and respondent-father's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1)-(3), (6), and (7); whether the trial court erred by not appointing respondent-mother a guardian ad litem; whether the trial court's findings of fact support its adjudication of grounds to terminate respondent-father's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7); whether the trial court abused its discretion by determining it was in K.D.M.J.'s best interests to terminate respondents' parental rights.

Appeal from an order terminating respondents' parental rights; whether the evidence supports the trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law that grounds existed to terminate respondents' parental rights for failure to pay a reasonable portion of the cost of the care provided to the juveniles pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); whether the trial court abused its discretion in terminating respondents' parental rights.

Termination of parental rights; lack of jurisdictional findings under N.C.G.S. 7B-1101; judicial notice of documents in the case file; adjudication of neglect under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1); sufficiency of adjudicatory findings; likelihood of future neglect; cumulative error.

Appeal from an order terminating respondent's parental rights; whether the trial court erred by entering findings of fact and conclusions of law as a substitute judge despite not hearing the evidence.