Whether plaintiff was contributorily negligent as a matter of law when his risk of being struck by a golf ball at a driving range was open and obvious.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in vacating an order of summary judgment and whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the state statutory claims.

Whether the Office of Administrative Hearings has jurisdiction to decide as-applied constitutional challenges to North Carolina's tax statutes.

Whether courts interpreting state statutes must defer to the legal interpretation of the state agency responsible for implementing those statutes.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing the trial court's order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, where the jury determined that homeowners' chickens were not household pets and therefore were prohibited by a restrictive covenant barring poultry.

Whether defendant voluntarily consented to law enforcement officers' search of his backpack.

Whether title to property is revested in the landowner if a government entity takes the property for a private purpose and whether the trial court may enter a mandatory injunction to restore the property to its original condition where the landowner has not requested injunctive relief in the pleadings.

Whether title to property is revested in the landowner if a government entity takes the property for a private purpose and whether the trial court may enter a mandatory injunction to restore the property to its original condition where the landowner has not requested injunctive relief in the pleadings.

summary judgment, patent ambiguity, priority

express easement, easements appurtenant, easements in gross, declaratory judgment, quiet title, Rule 12(c), void for vagueness, de novo, reasonable certainty, claim preclusion, issue preclusion, affirm. 

de novo; summary judgment; adverse possession; tacking; privity; privity of possession; privity of estate; property; disputed tract; statutory period; color of title; successive occupants; subsequent possessions; grantee; grantor; connection of title; minority rule

subject matter jurisdiction; N.C.G.S. § 7B-1601(b); N.C.G.S. § 7B-2506(1)(c); N.C.G.S. § 7B-2501(d).

gross negligence, ordinary negligence, punitive damages, legislative cap

Sufficiency of indictment

Fifth Amendment; Self-Incrimination; Pre-Custodial Interrogation Silence; Substantive Evidence; Testimony; Impeachment

Motion for Summary Judgment; Reformation of Deed; Mutual mistake; Joinder; Motion to Continue

petition for writ of certiorari; summary judgment; negligent misrepresentation; fraud; real estate broker; duty to disclose; material facts

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-122; nomination by petition; declaratory judgment; summary judgment; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-58; elections for the board of commissioners