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.

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for a transcript of a prior trial and motion to continue.

Whether the trial court deprived defendant of his right to confront witnesses against him at defendant's probation revocation hearing.

Whether a juvenile defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel during a resentencing hearing because counsel did not ask the court to run all of the defendant's sentences concurrently.

Revocable trust; appellate jurisdiction, trial court's subject matter jurisdiction, and the trustee's duties and powers concerning trust litigation.

Interlocutory appeal; substantial right; right to venue; prior pending action.

Alienation of Affection, Criminal Conversation, Sufficiency of the Evidence.

Automobile accident; summary judgment; negligence; negligent entrustment; N.C. Gen. Stat. 20-71.1; statutory agency relationship between driver and owner of vehicle

North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure; actual notice of service of process does not cure ineffective service of process; general appearance; filing of removal in state court does not constitute a general appearance

Summary ejectment action, service of process, substantial compliance, actual notice

contractor, statue of repose, Rule 12(b)(6), motion to dismiss

Town ordinances; keeping potbellied pigs as pets in residentially-zoned district; livestock; swine; limited agriculture; agricultural production; legal non-conforming use; official zoning maps

Termination of parental rights; neglect; failure to make reasonable progress

Termination of parental rights; dependency; neglect; failure to make reasonable progress; only one ground required to support termination; unchallenged grounds for termination binding on appeal

Appellate Jurisdiction; Notice of Appeal; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency