Personal jurisdiction; Rule 12(b)(2) dismissal; standard of review

Rule 12(b)(6); Motion to Dismiss; Fair Debt Collection Practices Act; North Carolina Debt Collection Act

Industrial Commission; Workers' Compensation Act; legal standard for determining compensability of injury; attendant care benefits; Workers' Compensation Rule 614; discovery sanctions.

Sua sponte; Rule 60(b)(1); Parenting Coordinator; Writ of Certiorari; de novo; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-99, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-92.

Rule 3, Rule 9, notice of appeal

Motion to suppress; Fourth Amendment; consent; apparent control

trial court did not err in concluding defendant failed to make prima facie Batson challenge; no abuse of discretion by refusal to strike prospective jurors and give curative instruction; no error in overruling relevancy objection to expert's testimony or excluding portion of expert's report

first-degree murder; voluntary intoxication; admission of real evidence

habitual larceny; essential elements; N.C. Gen. Stat. 14.72; N.C. R. App. P. 4

Assault with deadly weapon; denial of motion to dismiss; self-defense; defense of habitation

Right to remain silent; defense of duress; constitutional error; remand from Supreme Court; harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; no comment by State during closing.

capacity to proceed; competency hearing; ineffective waiver of counsel; structural error

Sixth Amendment right to counsel; forfeiture of right to counsel; waiver of assigned counsel; pro se defendant; egregious and dilatory conduct; new trial.

indictment, lesser-included offense, swapping horses, Rule 403

Workers' compensation; employer-employee relationship; special employee; NCGS 97-51; NCGS 58-48-55(a1).

foreclosure sale; third-party bidder from whom plaintiff did not seek to recover damages had standing to move to dismiss plaintiff's complaint; record demonstrated that trial court did not consider outside the pleadings in granting motion to dismiss, thus not converting ruling to summary judgment; plaintiff failed to timely file an upset bid under provisions of emergency COVID-19 orders extending filing times and deadlines

Summary judgment; limited liability company; amendment to operating agreement; ownership interests.

Nonjudicial partnership dissolution;
Conflict of laws, substance and procedure; Direct and derivative suits.

Domestic violence protective order; subject-matter jurisdiction; civil summons; competent evidence of domestic violence; harassment; substantial emotional distress

Child custody erroneously granted to non-party