Law enforcement recordings;
N.C.G.S. § 132-1.4A;
Threshold showing of entitlement;
Restrictions;
Not public or personnel records;

Motion to Dismiss; Adverse Possession; Estoppel

plaintiff abandoned 12(b)(1) argument; intentional infliction of emotional distress claim properly dismissed because plaintiff failed to allege that he suffered severe emotional distress

Undue Influence; Summary Judgment; Caveat Proceeding

trial court erred by conditioning driving while impaired defendant's transfer from supervised to unsupervised probation on the passage of a certain amount of time

Forgery;
Uttering;
Obtaining Property by False Pretenses;
Fatal Defect;
Fatal Variance;
Motion to Dismiss;
Unpreserved Issues on Appeal;
Sufficiency of the State's evidence under State v. Golder, 374 N.C. 238, 246, 839 S.E.2d 782, 788 (2020);
Statutory Right to Recordation;
N.C. Gen Stat. ? 15A-1241;
Private Bench Conferences;

statute authorizing punishment of second-degree murder as a class B1 felony under two of three definitions of malice was not ambiguous, and sentencing defendant as a B1 felony offender was not error where jury unanimously found by special verdict form that all three forms of malice had been proven by the state

no plain error where trial court defined sexual act to include disjunctive acts

Hearsay; Confidential informant; Surveillance video; Computer-generated time and date-stamp on video; Plain error; Computer records.

Grandparent Visitation;
Attorney's Fees under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.6;
Appellate Attorney's Fees under Rule 34 of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure;
Prior Appeal;
State Bar Rule 1.5;
Required Finding of Fact;
Failure to Follow Mandate on Remand;

Whether North Carolina's Real Property Marketable Title Act exempts all restrictive covenants pertaining to a general or uniform scheme of development that restricts property to residential use.

Whether plaintiffs Cedarbrook Residential Center and Fred Leonard stated valid claims for negligence on the part of defendant North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services based upon the manner in which it inspected and took regulatory action against plaintiffs' adult care facility, whether any such claim is barred by sovereign immunity, and whether the public duty doctrine is available to defendant as an affirmative defense.

Whether the trial court properly rejected the General Assembly's Remedial Congressional Plan and accepted the General Assembly's Remedial House Plan and Remedial Senate Plan.

Whether the trial court's order finding that a law imposing a photo identification requirement for voters violates the equal protection guarantee of Art. I section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution was supported by evidence in the record and properly applied governing legal standards.

Whether the record evidence and the trial court's findings of fact support its decision that respondent should have been involuntarily committed for additional inpatient mental health treatment.

Whether the trial court violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding when the State did not appear and the trial court elicited evidence to support committing respondent.

Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying, without explanation, the city's Motion to Modify Restrictions.

Whether the trial judge violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding by calling a witness and eliciting testimony to support committing respondent when counsel for the State did not appear.

Whether the trial court violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding when the State did not appear and the trial court elicited evidence to support committing respondent.