public duty doctrine barred plaintiff's claims for wrongful death and negligent hiring and retention against municipality

motion for relief from judgment; Rules 60(b)(4) and 60(b)(6); consent order to dismiss without prejudice not void; Rule 41(a); no procedural blunder by counsel; trial court did not abuse its discretion

Interlocutory appeal; and Insufficient Statement of the Grounds for Appellate Review

Workers Compensation, Injury by Accident, Occupational Disease; Significant Causal Factor

robbery, jury instructions, plain error, property

Motion to Suppress, Traffic Stop, DWI, Reasonable Suspicion, IAC

felonious possession of stolen goods and felony eluding arrest with a motor vehicle; trial court reserved ruling on motion to dismiss and allowed State to recall witness; no judicial partiality; no impropriety in prosecutor's closing argument

Probation Revocation; New Criminal Offense, Clerical Error

sex-offender registration; N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-208.12A(a); equal protection; residency; termination petition

Subject matter jurisdiction, motion to set aside bond forfeiture, conviction, deferred prosecution, probation.

Lawful arrest; warrantless arrest; objective probable cause; resisting arrest; assault on a government official; malicious conduct by a prisoner; line of demarcation; motion to dismiss.

trial court's findings and conclusions were sufficient to support the order denying defendant's motion to suppress and probable cause supported search and search incident to arrest

Motion for appropriate relief; NCGS 15A-1419; Issues were raised or had the opportunity to be raised on previous appeal

Felony murder; unpreserved juror challenge; motion to suppress custodial, noncustodial statements; jury instruction on lesser-included offense, second-degree murder; superior court transfer hearing.

motion to suppress

Whether the trial court considered matters outside the pleading and thus converted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss to a Rule 56 motion for summary judgment.

Whether, under common law agency tenets, a principal in a joint real estate development venture is imputed with the knowledge of a co-principal's intent to defraud creditors by way of an insider conveyance of real estate property that is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the co-principal's creditor.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in applying a de novo standard of review in reviewing findings of the Industrial Commission under the timely-filing requirement of N.C.G.S. 97-24 and reversing the Commission's dismissal of plaintiff's claim on that basis.

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights; termination of respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1); neglect.