Rule 3.7 of NC Rules of Professional Conduct; necessary witness; witness-advocate rule

Open meetings law; Partial directed verdict; Attorney's fees.

?permanency planning review hearing requirements;? ?constitutionally protected status of parents;? ?requirement that a parent be found unfit for a change in guardianship placement.?

Equitable distribution;appeal after remand; value of marital residence; law of the case.

Governmental immunity; lease of premises to private entity; proprietary function; slip and fall; contributory negligence; summary judgment

equitable distribution order, classification and valuation, distributive award

ADA, termination

Jury Instructions; Flight; Clerical Error

larceny by employee; NCGS 14-74; identity of the employer; fatal variance; Rule 404 (b) evidence; Rule 403 prejudice

Failure to specify an entity capable of owning property on a larceny indictment;? ?arresting judgment without express justification for doing so;? ? double-jeopardy related arrest of judgment.?

Evidence - Rule 412(b)

?preservation of an argument on appeal;? ?sufficiency of the evidence;? ?general motion to dismiss for sufficiency of the evidence;? ?specific argument for a motion to dismiss for sufficiency of the evidence.?

Denial of motion to compel arbitration

Driver?s license revocation, implied-consent offense, affidavit modification, refusal to submit to testing

Appeal from Industrial Commission's denial of benefits under the N.C. Eugenics Compensation Program based on deceased claimant's constitutional challenge to a statutory requirement to qualify for the Program; whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over the appeal; application of N.C.G.S. 1-267.1(a1).

Appeal from Industrial Commission's denial of benefits under the N.C. Eugenics Compensation Program based on deceased claimant's constitutional challenge to a statutory requirement to qualify for the Program; whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over the appeal; application of N.C.G.S. 1-267.1(a1).

Appeal from Industrial Commission's denial of benefits under the N.C. Eugenics Compensation Program based on deceased claimant's constitutional challenge to a statutory requirement to qualify for the Program; whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over the appeal; application of N.C.G.S. 1-267.1(a1).

Dispute between bank that made a construction loan to a developer and the company that issued payment and performance bonds to a contractor who was not paid for his work; whether certain issues decided by a jury in a previous action between the contractor, who was in privity with the bond company, and the bank, coupled with statements made by the bond company's counsel to the court in the prior action, barred the bond company's claims in a later action raising the same issues; application of judicial estoppel.

Whether the trial court erred in allowing the State to amend an indictment at the start of trial; application of N.C.G.S. 15A-923(e); whether the amendment was material.