sufficiency of evidence to submit operating motor vehicle while displaying expired registration plate charge to jury; unpreserved challenge to jury instruction on operating motor vehicle while displaying expired registration plate was waived; sentence imposed for operating motor vehicle while displaying expired registration plate was not legally authorized

Motion for post-conviction testing; N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 15A-269.

superseding indictment; guilty knowledge

Motion to dismiss; attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon; aiding and abetting; possession of a firearm by a felon; prior record level; motion for appropriate relief.

Lay witness; evidence of malice; self defense; jury instruction

Intervenors, grandparents, child custody, attorneys' fees

Tort Claims Act; Subject-matter jurisdiction; Defamation; Negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Adverse Possession Under Color of Title; Trusts; Judgment on the Pleadings

The NC Insurance Guaranty Association; Bar date; Statute of Repose

Confidential or Fiduciary Relationship; Constructive Trust; Summary Judgment.

Undue influence, Trusts and estates

Civil contempt; modification of child support; gatekeeping order; stay pending appeal; lack of jurisdiction to rule on issues embraced in pending appeal

Keep dangerous animal, dog bite, summary judgment for defendant, shifted burden to plaintiff, prior knowledge of owner, precautions taken.

motion to dismiss, judicial efficiency, mootness, discovery order, interlocutory appeal

Motion to Dismiss, Personal Jurisdiction, Proper Forum, Convenient Forum

Alimony; ability to pay; consideration of bonus income in determining ability to pay; appeal after remand in prior appeal; mandate rule

permanent custody order; custody order awarding visitation to grandparents affected a substantial right of parent; trial court erred when it engaged in a best interest of the child analysis after granting full physical and legal custody, care, and control of minor child to parent; trial court erred when it granted grandparents visitation with minor child when parent was not found to be unfit and had not acted inconsistently with her constitutionally-protected status as a parent;

Civil/criminal contempt; Appellate jurisdiction