service of process

motion to dismiss, interlocutory appeal, right to jury trial, Rule 39(a), Rule 39(b)

Lack of meaningful appellate review; Failure to include transcript; Written Order Controls; Jurisdiction; Rule 12(b)(2); Rule 12(b)(6).

Abuse; neglect; cessation of reunification efforts at initial disposition under N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-901(c)(1); sufficiency of findings of conduct that increased enormity or added to injurious consequences of abuse or neglect

Juvenile petition; Self-incrimination; Privilege against self-incrimination; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-2405; 5th Amendment.

Department of Social Services, abuse and neglect, adjudicatory grounds, felony history

termination of parental rights, willful abandonment

Foreclosure, NC. R. Civ. P. 60(b); void order; trustee neutrality; notice of neutrality.

Rule 3.1(e), no-merit brief, neglected juvenile.

sovereign immunity, implied-in-fact contract, 12(b)(6), Corum

award for attorney's fees; reasonableness; findings of fact; compliance with appellate court mandate on remand

Derivative jurisdiction, properly compiled record on appeal, appeal dismissed.

probable cause

plain error, prior record level, sentencing classification.

petition for writ of certiorari, structured sentencing act, mitigating factors, presumptive range

motion to suppress, public vehicular area, probable cause, plain smell, plain view

trial court erred by failing to conduct adequate substantial similarity analysis for out-of-state conviction; remanded for resentencing based on incorrect prior record level calculation and for proper substantial similarity analysis

second degree rape, essential element, defective indictment, first degree kidnapping