Appellate Court Opinions

Whether reliance is reasonable in a claim for fraud in the inducement when the complaining party failed to conduct any material due diligence on the representations and warranties upon which the fraud claim is based.

Whether N.C.G.S. 132-1.4A provides the exclusive procedure by which a criminal defendant in district court may request release of law enforcement agency recordings covered by the statute.

Whether the Court of Appeals properly concluded the trial court prejudicially erred when it excluded a handwritten note written by the complaining witness.

Whether probable cause supported a warrant to search defendant's vehicle.

Whether the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress cell-site location information.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding step one of the Batson inquiry was moot.

Whether the Business Court erred in granting a motion for partial judgment on the pleadings, granting a motion to strike portions of an affidavit on summary judgment, and disregarding a purported expert report on summary judgment; and whether the Business Court erred in granting a motion for summary judgment, because a partnership did not exist.

Whether the Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission arbitrarily or capriciously denied petitioner's application for justice officer certification upon concluding that he lacked the good moral character required of deputy sheriffs.

Whether escalating conflict and an unwillingness to communicate for the welfare of the child constitutes a substantial change in circumstances supporting a modification of a child custody order.

Whether plaintiffs' Corum claims, which allege that restrictions imposed on bars during the COVID 19 pandemic violated the Fruits of the Their Own Labor Clause and Law of the Land Clause, are colorable such that sovereign immunity does not bar their suit.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by vacating the neglect adjudication of a juvenile whose sibling was abused.

Whether N.C.G.S. 25A-37, the anti-referral sales statute, only protects a purchaser who shows 'inducement' and whether the trial court erred in certifying a class.

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.