Spousal Year's Allowance; Deficiency Judgment; Estate Administration; Family Settlement Agreements

wrongful death; sufficiency of allegations in complaint; identification of individual and official capacity in caption; sovereign immunity; caption in complaint sufficiently identified individuals in individual and official capacity to survive motions to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1), 12(b)(2), and 12(b)(6) of North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure

Interlocutory; Collateral estoppel; Equitable distribution

obstruction of justice, N.C.G.S. 14-3(b), denial of access

Jury Instructions; Self-defense

Criminal Conviction, Civil Judgment, Attorney?s Fees, Jurisdiction, Record on Appeal, N.C. R. App. P. 3(a), Certiorari, N.C. R. App. P. 9, Amending Record on Appeal

DWI-insufficient evidence of impairment - NCGS 20-138.1(a)(1); second-degree murder re: reckless driving non-DWI; NCGS 20-146(d)(1) failure to maintain lane control

expunctions or expungement; eligibility for expunction of offense involving impaired driving

Jury instruction on entrapment not warranted where defendant failed to show lack of predisposition to commit crimes charged; error to enter civil judgment for attorney's fees without providing defendant opportunity to be heard thereupon

Appeal from an order and opinion of the Business Court concluding that insurers can depreciate labor costs when calculating actual cash value.

Appeal from Business Court orders denying plaintiffs' motion for entry of default judgment; whether defendant's contacts with North Carolina were sufficient to support a determination that personal jurisdiction existed.

Whether the General Assembly authorized Oak Island to impose sewer district fees on owners of undeveloped parcels of property.

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-27(a)(3) from an order and opinion on defendants' motion to stay all proceedings on forum non conveniens grounds; whether the Business Court erred by granting a stay in favor of defendants where plaintiff's claims under North Carolina and English law challenge the North Carolina-based conduct of the North Carolina-based officials most responsible for the failure of a global clinical drug; and whether the Business Court erred by staying the case without affording plaintiff limited jurisdictional discovery to clarify the contested ties between the claims asserted and the potential forums.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by concluding that the trial court did not have the authority to consider plaintiff's motions to amend its complaint to reduce its just compensation deposit after defendant attempted to voluntarily dismiss its claim for additional compensation.

Whether plaintiffs retained a right of first refusal contained in an original lease during a holdover year-to-year tenancy created by operation of law; whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants.

Termination of parental rights: whether the trial court's findings of fact were supported by clear and convincing evidence and supported its conclusions of law that respondent-mother's parental rights should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1).

Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); ability to pay reasonable portion of the children's cost of care.

Subject matter jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act; termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); lack of knowledge not a defense for willful failure to pay reasonable portion of the children's cost of care.

Review of recommendation for censure.