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State v. Bradsher
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by reversing defendant's conviction of felony obstruction of justice for insufficient evidence.
State v. Diaz-Tomas
Whether a criminal defendant may compel a trial court or prosecuting authority to calendar and dispose of a criminal matter which has been dismissed with leave pursuant to statute when the dismissal-with-leave status affects the defendant's ability to exercise his driving privilege.
State v. Harvin
Whether defendant forfeited his right to counsel by egregious misconduct.
State v. Hooper
Whether defendant properly preserved his challenge to the trial court's failure to instruct the jury concerning self-defense for purposes of appellate review; whether the trial court erred by rejecting defendant's request for an instruction concerning self-defense.
State v. Nunez
Whether the superior court abused its discretion by denying defendant's petition for writ of certiorari.
State v. Swindell
Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's request for a jury instruction on justification as a defense to the charge of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Taylor v. Bank of Am., N.A.
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by remanding the case to the trial court to make factual findings and conclusions of law in support of the trial court's order granting a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to N.C. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).
Townes v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC
Whether defendant violated provisions of the Consumer Economic Protection Act of 2009.
Supreme Court Opinions Filed August 19, 2022
Anderson Creek Partners, L.P. v. Cnty. of Harnett
Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.
Buckley, LLP v. Series 1 of Oxford Ins. Co., NC, LLC
Affirming a business court order and opinion based on its proper application of the law of attorney-client privilege to communications with an outside law firm made in the course of investigation of alleged violations of company's sexual harassment policy.
Connette v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth.
Whether advanced practice registered nurses owe a statutory, professional duty of care to patients in the context of the planning of, collaboration on, and selection of a patient's treatment.
In re M.B.
Whether the trial court erred in terminating respondent's parental rights for neglect and failure to show reasonable progress in correcting the conditions which led to removal under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (2).
Miller v. Carolina Coast Emergency Physicians, LLC
Whether a motion to dismiss for failure to comply with Rule 9(j) should be assessed based on what the plaintiff reasonably believed at the time the Rule 9(j) certification was filed. Whether the Court of Appeals utilized the correct standard of review in examining whether certain evidence was properly admitted under Rule 702.
N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. Moore
Whether a General Assembly comprised of legislators elected pursuant to legislative districts that had been determined to be unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered possessed the authority to initiate the process for amending the North Carolina Constitution.
Nation Ford Baptist Church, Inc. v. Davis
Whether the trial court could entertain any of the claims brought by the former pastor of a church who alleged he was improperly terminated by the church's Board of Directors, or whether doing so required the court to become impermissibly entangled with ecclesiastical matters in violation of the First Amendment.
PF Dev. Grp., LLC v. Cnty. of Harnett
Whether 'capacity use' fees charged to residential property developers for the purpose of expanding and improving the county's water and sewage system as a precondition for the county's concurrence in a developer's application to the Department of Environmental Quality for a required water and sewer permit constitute monetary exactions subject to review under the 'unconstitutional conditions' doctrine.
Providence Volunteer Fire Dep't, Inc. v. Town of Weddington
Whether the doctrine of governmental immunity shields a municipality from claims alleging that it fraudulently entered into contracts for fire protection services and for the acquisition of land used to provide such services; whether the doctrine of legislative immunity shields a mayor from a claim alleging that he fraudulently induced the town council to terminate contracts entered into for the provision of fire protection services.
State v. Gaddis
Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for a transcript of a prior trial and motion to continue.
State v. Jones
Whether the trial court deprived defendant of his right to confront witnesses against him at defendant's probation revocation hearing.