Summary Judgment; Procedural due process; Notice; Corporate Combination for Income Tax; Retroactive Taxation; Uniform Taxation; Economic Substance Analysis; Penalties.

Appealability; Validity of State Constitutional Claim for Deprivation of Right to Education

Attorney's fees; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-88.1

Rule 9(j); Expert witness; Medical malpractice; negligence

Pre-Kindergarten Right to Basic Education; N.C. Constitution

Personal property tax; Law of the case; Valuation methodology

Rules of Civil Procedure 59(d); new trial

Breach of contract; recovery of legal fees;

Right of first refusal; recordation

Unconditional release from life imprisonment; N.C.G.S. 14-2 (1974)

Contracts; actual authority; apparent authority

Standing to challenge zoning amendment; Subject matter jurisdiction to enter order for attorneys' fees.

Summary judgment; injunctive relief; contracts

Hospital Licensure Act; Rule 12(b0(6); Summary Judgment

Interpretation of Will; authority of Administrator

Child custody

Medical Malpractice; Rule 9(j) compliance.

Rule 404(b); lack of sufficient similarity

N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1242; Critical stage of criminal proceedings; Waiver of counsel; Sixth Amendment right to counsel; Hearing on motion to suppress

Sufficiency of the evidence; jury instructions; less included offense