subject matter jurisdiction; prospective adoptive parents' standing to file a petition to terminate parental rights

termination of parental rights

Termination of Parental Rights; Required Findings of Fact; Dependency; Neglect; Willful Abandonment; Failure to Make Progress to Reunify; Failure to Pay

NCGS 7B-320; Responsible Individuals List; late notice; prejudice; dismissal of criminal charges

Small claims court, jurisdiction, amount in controversy, compulsory counterclaims, appeal to district court

plain language; contract

Motion to dismiss, interlocutory appeal; Rule 12(b)(2), public official immunity

interlocutory appeal; appellant's burden

Child support order; abuse of discretion review; child support guidelines; non-recurring income; rent-free housing; health insurance premium proration.

Summary judgment; negligence-premises liability; denial of motion to strike; Legionnaires' disease; Vacation Rental Act, NCGS 42A-1, et seq.; waiver of arguments; proximate cause.

Office of Administrative Hearings; substantial prejudice; certificate of need; department of health and human services; standard of review; comparative analysis; MRI; agency; criteria; conforming; deference

expert witnesses-Notice; expert witness as lay witness;

Defendant's failure to appear; notice of forfeiture; motion to set aside bond forfeiture; statutorily mandated timeline.

Fourth Amendment; Search and Seizure; Reasonable suspicion; Probable cause; Drug paraphernalia; Investigatory stop; Anonymous tip; Admission of prior arrest to support probable cause.

Driving While Impaired; Plain Error; Denial of Motion to Suppress; Probable Cause for DWI Arrest

First-degree murder; defense of habitation, NCGS 14-51.2; self-defense; improper injection of race; prosecutor's closing argument; new trial; jury instructions; NC Pattern Instruction Crim.- 308.80 - Curtilage.

corpus delicti; foreign birth certificate; authentication; hearsay; satellite-based monitoring; unpreserved Fourth Amendment challenge

First-degree felony murder by a juvenile; life with the possibility of parole; NCGS 15A-1340.19B(a)(1).

Indictment; Fourth Amendment

Trial Calendar in Criminal Cases; Request for Continuance; Harmless Error; Request to Present Rebuttal Witness