Anders brief;
Motion to Preserve;
Evidence + DNA;
Testing

First Degree Murder;
Premeditation and Deliberation;
Lying in Wait;
Motion to Dismiss;
Jury Instructions;
Denial of Mistrial

first-degree murder, attempted murder, insanity defense, victim impact evidence

Criminal Pleadings, Sufficiency of Indictments, Animal Cruelty, Improper Closing Argument

possession of a weapon by a prisoner; sufficiency of indictment; motion to dismiss; lay opinion

driving while impaired, motion to continue, motion to dismiss

Suppression motion, traffic stop, consent, consensual encounter with public officer, scope of consent

possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver marijuana; motion for joinder; motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence; intent element

voluntary discovery; N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-903; laboratory records

separation agreement, the doctrine of laches, accumulation of payment obligation

Summary judgment, issue of material fact, defamation, truth of statements, negligence, breach of duty

Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.

Affirming a business court order and opinion based on its proper application of the law of attorney-client privilege to communications with an outside law firm made in the course of investigation of alleged violations of company's sexual harassment policy.

Whether advanced practice registered nurses owe a statutory, professional duty of care to patients in the context of the planning of, collaboration on, and selection of a patient's treatment.

Whether the trial court erred in terminating respondent's parental rights for neglect and failure to show reasonable progress in correcting the conditions which led to removal under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (2).

Whether a motion to dismiss for failure to comply with Rule 9(j) should be assessed based on what the plaintiff reasonably believed at the time the Rule 9(j) certification was filed. Whether the Court of Appeals utilized the correct standard of review in examining whether certain evidence was properly admitted under Rule 702.

Whether a General Assembly comprised of legislators elected pursuant to legislative districts that had been determined to be unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered possessed the authority to initiate the process for amending the North Carolina Constitution.

Whether the trial court could entertain any of the claims brought by the former pastor of a church who alleged he was improperly terminated by the church's Board of Directors, or whether doing so required the court to become impermissibly entangled with ecclesiastical matters in violation of the First Amendment.

Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.

Whether the doctrine of governmental immunity shields a municipality from claims alleging that it fraudulently entered into contracts for fire protection services and for the acquisition of land used to provide such services; whether the doctrine of legislative immunity shields a mayor from a claim alleging that he fraudulently induced the town council to terminate contracts entered into for the provision of fire protection services.