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.

permanent child custody order; constitutionally protected status as a parent; best interests of the children.

Motion to dismiss; sanctions; attorneys' fees; N.C. R. App. P. 28

joint venture; summary judgment; fiduciary duty; constructive fraud; unfair and deceptive trade practices.

DVPO; NCGS Chapter 50; competent evidence

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. 

real estate brokerage; unlicensed activity; finder's fee; summary judgment; statutory construction

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

civil contempt;equitable distribution; willful violation of consent order

doctrine of res judicata; summary judgment de novo review

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).

termination of parental rights; N.C.G.S. § 7B-1111(a)(7).

termination of parental rights; Rule 3.1; no-merit appeal

trust administration; beneficiary rights; trustee disclosure obligations; North Carolina Trust Code; annual accounting requirement