Domestic violence protective order, personal relationship, judicial admission, illustrative evidence, prejudice.

child support; insufficient findings of fact; computation of gross income; credit for biological child

healthcare, managed care organization, local management entity, Medicaid, health care provider, contract, administrative law, summary judgment, services, utilization review

trial court properly granted all defendants' motions to exclude plaintiffs' sole standard-of-care expert witness and motions to dismiss pursuant to Rule 9(j) and for summary judgment

motion for summary judgment, premises liability

Juvenile delinquency; adjudication and disposition; NCGS 2405(4) privilege against self-incrimination; required findings of fact.

Disposition order; guardianship; abuse of discretion; nonrelative placement; kinship placement; nonsecure custody

neglect adjudication of newborn; sufficiency of the evidence to support findings of fact; sufficiency of findings to support conclusions of law

? juvenile adjudicated delinquent
? trial court failed to address mandated inquiries before accepting juvenile's admission pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-2407(a) (2019)
? reversed and remanded

unchallenged findings of fact supported conclusions of law; no abuse of discretion when ceasing reunification efforts with Respondent-Father

temporary suspension of supervised visitation; COVID-19; costs of visitation

Declaratory judgment by insurer; personal injury lawsuits; duty to defend; US Driver's Privacy Projection Act; construing insurance policies; defined terms; plain meaning.

Child support; interlocutory appeal from discovery sanctions; lack of appellate jurisdiction

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction

Tortious interference with prospective economic advantage; summary judgment; Rules of Appellate Procedure; substantial and gross violations.

Worker's Compensation; NCGS 97-25(f); NCGS 97-2(19); NCGS 97-88.1; frivolous appeal; medical compensation; attorney's fees; abuse of discretion; cross appeal.

right to elective share determination proper by clerk of superior court

Kidnapping; sufficient evidence of separate confinement or restraint apart from that inherent in underlying assaults; sufficient evidence of each alternative theory of purpose for kidnapping; challenge to instruction that knife was deadly weapon as matter of law; requirement that evidentiary challenges show prejudice

motion to suppress; probable cause; staleness of information in affidavit; trafficking

DWI, Motion to Suppress; Probable Cause