Arbitration; Contracts

In quantum meruit; contractors

Jury Instruction; mutually exclusive offenses

Plain error; jury instructions

Satellite based monitoring

Workers' Compensation, N.C. Gen. State. Sec. 97-25, and non-compliance

Zoning ordinances, subdivision regulation, ultra vires

Civil Procedure; Rule 41(d)

Life estate; implied covenant of good faith and fair dealings; contracts

Constitutionality of N.C.G.S. Sec. 115C-431 procedures to resolve funding disputes between local school boards and county commissioners

Whether 'one person, one vote' requirement established in Stephenson v. Bartlett applies to superior court judicial districts

Constitutionality of N.C.G.S. � 14-415.1 amendment barring all felons from possessing firearms anywhere

Unemployment insurance eligibility; whether leaving a job to accept early retirement benefits under a company downsizing program is a disqualifying act under N.C.G.S. � 96-14(1)

Whether a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect can be later amended to add newly discovered allegations of sexual abuse against a child named in the petition; application of N.C.G.S. � 7B-800

N.C.G.S. � 153A-344(b); whether issuance of a building permit also conferred a statutory vested rifht to conduct a mining operation on the same property; application of Robins v. Town of Hillsborough

Felony sentencing; whether trial court's unilateral finding of an aggravating factor was harmless error when the same evidence was used to prove an element of an offense

First-degree murder (capital/death)

First-degree murder (capital/death)

Whether by failing to object at trial defendant waived appellate review of the trial court's instructions to a single juror in violation of Article I, Section 24 of the North Carolina Constitution