Appellate Court Opinions

Constitutionality of N.C.G.S. � 14-415.1 amendment barring all felons from possessing firearms anywhere

Unemployment insurance eligibility; whether leaving a job to accept early retirement benefits under a company downsizing program is a disqualifying act under N.C.G.S. � 96-14(1)

Whether a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect can be later amended to add newly discovered allegations of sexual abuse against a child named in the petition; application of N.C.G.S. � 7B-800

N.C.G.S. � 153A-344(b); whether issuance of a building permit also conferred a statutory vested rifht to conduct a mining operation on the same property; application of Robins v. Town of Hillsborough

Felony sentencing; whether trial court's unilateral finding of an aggravating factor was harmless error when the same evidence was used to prove an element of an offense

First-degree murder (capital/death)

First-degree murder (capital/death)

Whether by failing to object at trial defendant waived appellate review of the trial court's instructions to a single juror in violation of Article I, Section 24 of the North Carolina Constitution

Interlocutory appeal from denial of Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss; whether prior consent judgment collaterally estops plaintiffs from asserting any future interest in real property held by defendant corporation as trustee

Alienation of affection; out-of-state defendant; long-arm personal jurisdiction under N.C.G.S. � 1-75.4(4)(a)

Workers' Compensation; Causation evidence

Complaint for monetary damages; whether existence of a state remedy barred by sovereign immunity can prevent assertion of a state constitutional claim for the same alleged injury

Third-party exception under N.C.G.S. � 143-215.83(b)(2)(d) to strict liability for discharging petroleum products into state waters

Whether plaintiff sufficiently alleged that she was engaged in protected activity under the State Whisleblower Act to survive a motion to dismiss

Termination of parental rights; whether failure to issue summons of TPR proceedings to children deprived trial court of subject matter jurisdiction

Whether clerk's failure to sign summonses issued in a child neglect proceeding deprived the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction over both that proceeding and a later proceeding that terminated parental rights based on the earlier finding of neglect

Termination of parental rights; whether failure to issue summons of TPR proceedings to children deprived trial court of subject matter jurisdiction

Nonjurisdictional violations of N.C. R. App. P. 10(c)(1); whether new trial is required when appellate court reverses trial court's grant of JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING THE VERDICT in defendant's favor on plaintiff's claims for fraud and UDTP

Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's deposition taken by telephone in another country complied with N.C. R. Civ. P. 28(b)(3)