Whether a special assessment made by a condominium homeowners association is unlawful and invalid

Motion to suppress; constitutionality of an individual search for contraband that went beyond a student's outer clothing based only on generalized suspicion of all students

Workers' Compensation; employer admits compensability; whether the Indus. Comm'n made sufficient findings of fact to support its award when the Comm'n's opinion recited conflicting facts regarding the extent of the employee's work-related injuries and his differing accounts of how the accident occurred

Whether the State filed timely notice of appeal from the trial court's order allowing defendant's motion to suppress

Whether a county's general zoning power authorizes it to enact an adequate public facilities ordinance.

Negligence action for a drowning in a county park; denial of summary judgment for defendants claiming governmental immunity defense; whether park's operation is a governmental or proprietary function

Whether a county's general zoning power authorizes it to enact an Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance

Whether a county's general zoning power authorizes it to enact an adequate public facilities ordinance

Whether the district court properly dismissed plaintiff's action to annul his marriage to defendant for bigamy because plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence that defendant had been married previously

Action to collect unpaid bill for inpatient care received by defendant; trial court's grant of summary judgment for hospital on the amount due; whether there was a genuine issue of material fact regarding the reasonableness of the charges

Workers' Compensation; N.C.G.S. § 97-57; whether competent evidence supported Indus. Comm'n's findings on which insurance carrier had the risk for plaintiff?s asbestosis

Professional malpractice action; grant of summary judgment in defendants' favor; whether plaintiff's expert witness met the requirements of Rule 9(j)(1)-that he was reasonably expected to qualify as an expert under Rule 702(b).

Negligence action against the State; application of public duty doctrine to DOT's exercise of its mandate to maintain the public roads

When defendant was charged with first-degree murder, whether the trial court erred in also instructing the jury on second-degree murder; prejudicial effect of testimony from one of several expert witnesses; prejudicial effect of the trial court's failure to give the full pattern jury instruction on determination of aggravating factors

Admissibility of prior acts testimony against defendant under Evidence Rule 404(b)

Sufficiency of evidence that defendant constructively possessed contraband found in a bedroom with indicia of domain present.

Whether the trial court abused its discretion by excluding expert testimony about repressed memory theory under Rule of Evidence 403