permanent custody order; custody order awarding visitation to grandparents affected a substantial right of parent; trial court erred when it engaged in a best interest of the child analysis after granting full physical and legal custody, care, and control of minor child to parent; trial court erred when it granted grandparents visitation with minor child when parent was not found to be unfit and had not acted inconsistently with her constitutionally-protected status as a parent;

Civil/criminal contempt; Appellate jurisdiction

worker's compensation; implied contract of employment; right to control employee; joint employment

workers' compensation; arising out of; in the course of; slip and fall; laundry; Industrial Commission; traveling employee; writ of certiorari; abuse of discretion; Workers' Compensation Act; increased risk; personal errand; exclusion of evidence; prejudice; cross-appeal; causal link; scope of employment

Wrongful discharge based on public policy of reporting adultery; libel claims against co-workers; tortious interference with contract; summary judgment procedure

Indecent liberties, multiple victims, factual basis for guilty plea, Satellite Based Monitoring, certiorari, preserved errors, assistance of counsel, civil judgment.

Second degree murder; trial court refusal to instruct on self-defense; reasonableness in the mind of a person of ordinary firmness

attorney's failure to move to dismiss charge of conspiracy to commit murder was not prejudicial because there was sufficient evidence to support the charge; testimonial evidence was not hearsay and thus the trial court did not err in allowing the testimony into evidence; plain error in delivery of jury instruction on charge of conspiracy to commit murder when the indictment, evidence, and jury instruction were not in accord

discovery compliance; no sanctions; sufficient evidence of maintaining a vehicle to keep or sell controlled substances

Criminal procedure; notice of appeal from district court to superior court; statutory interpretation; meaning of compliance with the judgment

assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, Harrison inquiry, ineffective assistance of counsel

Rule 702; expert testimony; expert opinion; latent fingerprint analysis;

Trafficking in methamphetamine; right to silence; comment on defendant's silence; affirmative defense of duress; prior notice to State; State's case in chief.

renewal of default judgment; sum certain; void judgment

service of process; trial court discretion to extend time for service; dormant summons; alias or pluries summons

Whether a contract's liquidated damages provision created a genuine issue of material fact, thereby precluding summary judgment for plaintiff and whether the contract with plaintiff was in violation of defendant's charter and the statutes governing its operation and is therefore null and void.

Whether the General Assembly intended to exempt by implication the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System's Board of Trustees from rulemaking requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act, N.C.G.S. 150B, in adopting a Contribution-Based Benefit Cap pursuant to N.C.G.S. 135- 5(a3).

Whether the General Assembly intended to exempt by implication the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System's Board of Trustees from rulemaking requirements pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, N.C.G.S. 150B, in adopting a Contribution-Based Benefit Cap pursuant to N.C.G.S. 135-5(a3).

Appeal from an order terminating respondent's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7); willful abandonment.