Appellate Court Opinions

Slip opinions (court's decision in a case) filed and written by the justices of the Supreme Court or judges of the Court of Appeals

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2,698 Appellate Court Opinions

, Supreme Court , 13PA21 (Justice Tamara Barringer) , Published
State v. Bradsher

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by reversing defendant's conviction of felony obstruction of justice for insufficient evidence.

, Supreme Court , 54A19-3 (Justice Michael Morgan) , Published
State v. Diaz-Tomas

Whether a criminal defendant may compel a trial court or prosecuting authority to calendar and dispose of a criminal matter which has been dismissed with leave pursuant to statute when the dismissal-with-leave status affects the defendant's ability to exercise his driving privilege.

, Supreme Court , 485PA19 (Justice Michael Morgan) , Published
State v. Harvin

Whether defendant forfeited his right to counsel by egregious misconduct.

, Supreme Court , 382A21 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Hooper

Whether defendant properly preserved his challenge to the trial court's failure to instruct the jury concerning self-defense for purposes of appellate review; whether the trial court erred by rejecting defendant's request for an instruction concerning self-defense.

, Supreme Court , 255PA20 (Per Curiam) , Published
State v. Nunez

Whether the superior court abused its discretion by denying defendant's petition for writ of certiorari.

, Supreme Court , 294A21 (Justice Phil Berger Jr.) , Published
State v. Swindell

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's request for a jury instruction on justification as a defense to the charge of possession of a firearm by a felon.

, Supreme Court , 102A20-2 (Justice Tamara Barringer) , Published
Taylor v. Bank of Am., N.A.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by remanding the case to the trial court to make factual findings and conclusions of law in support of the trial court's order granting a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to N.C. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).

, Supreme Court , 62PA21 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
Anderson Creek Partners, L.P. v. Cnty. of Harnett

Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.

, Supreme Court , 219A21 (Per Curiam) , Published
Buckley, LLP v. Series 1 of Oxford Ins. Co., NC, LLC

Affirming a business court order and opinion based on its proper application of the law of attorney-client privilege to communications with an outside law firm made in the course of investigation of alleged violations of company's sexual harassment policy.

, Supreme Court , 331PA20 (Justice Michael Morgan) , Published
Connette v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth.

Whether advanced practice registered nurses owe a statutory, professional duty of care to patients in the context of the planning of, collaboration on, and selection of a patient's treatment.

, Supreme Court , 325A21 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
In re M.B.

Whether the trial court erred in terminating respondent's parental rights for neglect and failure to show reasonable progress in correcting the conditions which led to removal under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (2).

, Supreme Court , 222PA21 (Justice Anita Earls) , Published
Miller v. Carolina Coast Emergency Physicians, LLC

Whether a motion to dismiss for failure to comply with Rule 9(j) should be assessed based on what the plaintiff reasonably believed at the time the Rule 9(j) certification was filed. Whether the Court of Appeals utilized the correct standard of review in examining whether certain evidence was properly admitted under Rule 702.

, Supreme Court , 261A18-3 (Justice Anita Earls) , Published
N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. Moore

Whether a General Assembly comprised of legislators elected pursuant to legislative districts that had been determined to be unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered possessed the authority to initiate the process for amending the North Carolina Constitution.

, Supreme Court , 390A21 (Justice Anita Earls) , Published
Nation Ford Baptist Church, Inc. v. Davis

Whether the trial court could entertain any of the claims brought by the former pastor of a church who alleged he was improperly terminated by the church's Board of Directors, or whether doing so required the court to become impermissibly entangled with ecclesiastical matters in violation of the First Amendment.

, Supreme Court , 63PA21 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
PF Dev. Grp., LLC v. Cnty. of Harnett

Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.

, Supreme Court , 47PA21 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
Providence Volunteer Fire Dep't, Inc. v. Town of Weddington

Whether the doctrine of governmental immunity shields a municipality from claims alleging that it fraudulently entered into contracts for fire protection services and for the acquisition of land used to provide such services; whether the doctrine of legislative immunity shields a mayor from a claim alleging that he fraudulently induced the town council to terminate contracts entered into for the provision of fire protection services.

, Supreme Court , 306A21 (Justice Phil Berger Jr.) , Published
State v. Gaddis

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for a transcript of a prior trial and motion to continue.

, Supreme Court , 85PA20 (Justice Phil Berger Jr.) , Published
State v. Jones

Whether the trial court deprived defendant of his right to confront witnesses against him at defendant's probation revocation hearing.