Indictments; amendment; fatal variance; possession with intent to sell or deliver hydrocodone; trafficking in an opium derivative by sale; hydrocodone and hydrocodeinone are synonyms

Sentencing, prior record level

Forfeiture; Waiver

Sexual offenses with a minor; Territorial jurisdiction

Satellite-based Monitoring; Grady v. North Carolina; N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-208.40B

Show-up; Impermissibly Suggestive; Attempted Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon.

motion to reopen the evidence, most munificent remedy, stacking of benefits

motion to compel discovery, motion to vacate arbitration award, interlocutory order

Condemnation; Eminent Domain; Just Compensation; Fair Market Value

Foreclosure; collateral estoppel; collateral attack on foreclosure by power of sale prohibited; N.C. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6); no findings required in support of grant; Professional Responsibility; dual representation not error

Municipality's obligation to provide continued sewerage service to non-resident who refuses to petition for voluntary annexation

Workers Compensation; Joint Employment Doctrine; Lent Employee Doctrine; Implied Contract of Employment; Burden of Proof

Rule 11 Sanctions; Default; Entry of Default; Notice.

Following sale of a former family business, whether summary judgment should have been granted for sellers on purchaser's claims for breach of a non-compete agreement and for tortious interference with current and future customer contracts; extent of trial court's authority to revise geographic restrictions in the non-compete covenant.

Whether petitioner was barred by the ten-year statute of limitations in N.C.G.S. 1-47(3) from initiating a proceeding to foreclose on real property under properly recorded deeds of trust containing a power of sale.

Termination of father's parental rights for neglect of his child based partially on the mother's abuse of four older half-siblings; whether termination of father's parental rights was supported by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence; whether the COA properly affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the father's neglect was continuing and would likely continue in the future.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the case because the juvenile petition initiating the action was not verified as required by law.

Whether third-party defendants, a nonprofit corporation under contract with a County to provide fire and rescue services and its employee, should be dismissed from a negligence action on the basis of governmental and public officer immunity; whether third-party defendants adequately pleaded or properly produced documents in support of an immunity defense.

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to show that defendant failed to report a change of address as required under the North Carolina sex offender registration program; whether there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof offered at trial.