expunctions or expungement; eligibility for expunction of offense involving impaired driving

sentencing; second-degree muder; Class B2 offense

Jury instruction on entrapment not warranted where defendant failed to show lack of predisposition to commit crimes charged; error to enter civil judgment for attorney's fees without providing defendant opportunity to be heard thereupon

Polygraph test
Rule 403
Mitigating factor
Presumptive range

Discrimination
Race-neutral
Closing argument
Prior record level
Ineffective assistance of counsel

clerical error in judgment; sale and delivery of methamphetamine; arresting judgment

hearsay; present sense impression exception; attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon; lesser-included offenses

motion to dismiss - substantial evidence; misdemeanor cruelty to animals NCGS 14-360(a); restitution as condition of probation NCGS 1343(d) - aggrieved party; NCGS 19A-70

Appeal from an order and opinion of the Business Court concluding that insurers can depreciate labor costs when calculating actual cash value.

Appeal from Business Court orders denying plaintiffs' motion for entry of default judgment; whether defendant's contacts with North Carolina were sufficient to support a determination that personal jurisdiction existed.

Whether the General Assembly authorized Oak Island to impose sewer district fees on owners of undeveloped parcels of property.

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-27(a)(3) from an order and opinion on defendants' motion to stay all proceedings on forum non conveniens grounds; whether the Business Court erred by granting a stay in favor of defendants where plaintiff's claims under North Carolina and English law challenge the North Carolina-based conduct of the North Carolina-based officials most responsible for the failure of a global clinical drug; and whether the Business Court erred by staying the case without affording plaintiff limited jurisdictional discovery to clarify the contested ties between the claims asserted and the potential forums.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by concluding that the trial court did not have the authority to consider plaintiff's motions to amend its complaint to reduce its just compensation deposit after defendant attempted to voluntarily dismiss its claim for additional compensation.

Whether plaintiffs retained a right of first refusal contained in an original lease during a holdover year-to-year tenancy created by operation of law; whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants.

Termination of parental rights: whether the trial court's findings of fact were supported by clear and convincing evidence and supported its conclusions of law that respondent-mother's parental rights should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1).

Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); ability to pay reasonable portion of the children's cost of care.

Subject matter jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act; termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); lack of knowledge not a defense for willful failure to pay reasonable portion of the children's cost of care.

Review of recommendation for censure.

Action to enforce a separation agreement and property settlement; whether the Court of Appeals erred in upholding the trial court's order of specific performance requiring defendant to pay arrearages on and prospective alimony of $3,750.00 per month.

Appeal from an order and opinion of the Business Court determining that dividend income from a wholly owned subsidiary is considered part of a company's 'income not taxable' for the purposes of calculating 'net economic loss' income tax deductions.