child custody, contempt order, contempt

UCCJEA, motion to stay, domestic violence protective order, full faith and credit

Review of Court of Appeals' decision addressing judgment entered after a bench trial pursuant to N.C.G.S. 1A-1, Rule 52(a)(1).

Whether State employees are entitled to sovereign immunity against claims of negligence, gross negligence, and wrongful death brought against them in their individual capacities, and whether complaint stated cause of action.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the Property Tax Commission's conclusion that the County met its shifted burden of proving that its tax appraisal methodologies produced true values for the taxpayer's business personal property.

Whether an out-of-state defendant's phone calls to the cell phone of a person he had no reason to know was physically present in North Carolina establish the minimum contacts sufficient to vest jurisdiction over defendant in North Carolina courts.

Whether the Financial Responsibility Act permits a North Carolina resident who entered into an insurance contract in North Carolina to stack her own underinsured motorist coverage limits with the underinsured motorist coverage limits provided to the tortfeasor under an out-of-state insurance policy.

Whether the North Carolina Railroad Company is an agency or subdivision of the North Carolina government as that term is defined in the Public Records Act, N.C.G.S. 132-1.

Whether the defendant was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on any of the claims asserted in his post-conviction motion for appropriate relief that were summarily dismissed by the trial court. Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's other claims after conducting a limited evidentiary hearing on certain claims and a full evidentiary hearing on other claims.

Defendant appeals from a judgment based on the trial court's alleged insertion of judicial opinion during its jury instructions which defendant argues prejudiced the jury enough to result in a new trial.

Failure to provide name of co-conspirator in jury instructions; plain error review of jury instructions; overwhelming evidence to support guilt without naming co-conspirator in jury instructions.

Whether reasonable suspicion--necessary to justify a warrantless Terry search of defendant and the area of his vehicle under his direct control--existed where the responding officer testified that, during a traffic stop in a high-crime area at night for a non-moving violation, defendant (1) held his hands outside the driver's window as officers approached his vehicle, (2) appeared nervous in his interactions with the officer, (3) was 'blading' his body when retrieving documentation from the center console, and (4) possessed a criminal record with violent crime and weapons charges.

Whether a criminal defendant forfeits their Fifth Amendment right to silence when they give pretrial notice of an affirmative defense under N.C.G.S. 15A-905(c)(1); whether the State is permitted to elicit testimony on a defendant's silence during its case-in-chief for the purposes of impeachment based solely on the defendant's pretrial notice of an affirmative defense.

When a cause of action accrues for reformation of a deed of trust based on mutual mistake and whether the parties intended a deed of trust to secure a promissory note.

trial court did not err by paraphrasing witness testimony in factual finding; record did not support allegation that trial judge showed hostility to party; correction of order by trial court amounted to a merely clerical correction because it added no new substantive requirements to order; ordering a mental health evaluation of a party was within the court's discretion as other relief in an action for a no-contact order; trial court did not err in failing to rule on motion to dismiss that was not served on all parties and movant did not raise at the appropriate time

real estate financing transactions; North Carolina General Statute Chapter 45, Article 7; future advances; validity v. priority; deed of trust secured by real property; maturity date; record notice; summary judgment; affirmed and modified in part; reversed and remanded in part

Juvenile abuse and neglect; permanency planning; guardianship; trial court's duties under Indian Child Welfare Act