Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's decedent, an employee of a temporary agency that assigned him to work at a County facility, was also a County employee under the special employment doctrine

Whether DSS can voluntarily dismiss a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect before an adjudication hearing is held; interpretation of N.C. R. Civ. P. 41(a) in conjunction with N.C.G.S. ? 7B-201(a)

Whether the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors exceeded its statutory authority or violated the due process rights of a licensee and his company by disciplining them for violating the Board's professional conduct rules

Firearms possession charge; admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) about defendant's previous arrest; whether defendant properly preserved the issue he argued on appeal

On remand; whether trial court erred in granting defendant's pretrial motions to suppress and to dismiss the charge of resisting a public officer

Whether indictments charging Jones with obtaining property by false pretenses and charging his codefendant with trafficking in stolen identities were properly dismissed by the trial court; whether the State offered sufficient proof of identity theft to support Jones's conviction for that offense

N.C. Gen. Stat. 1-69.1; standing

res judicata - claim preclusion: choice of law, declaratory judgments, bankruptcy-advesary proceeding

Impossibility; Contract; Damages

LLC charging order

Wrongful termination; Just cause; Quorum

Preliminary injunction, trade secrets, non-compete agreement

NC Utilities Commission, Public convenience and Necessity standing