Appellate Court Opinions

Workers' Compensation; recreational event; whether employee's injury was work-related

Summary judgment; whether insurance policy covers losses to insured's business from roof collapse

Constitutional and non-constitutional claims against local school board arising from accident on school premises; summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings

Pending site plan review; permanent ban on lawful use

Trial court's order to DOC to change inmate's sentencing record

Second-degree murder; self-defense; whether excluding some evidence of victim's violent character was prejudicial error

Robbery with a dangerous weapon; are hands a dangerous weapon under N.C.G.S. 14-87?

Burning of detached garage at a residence applicability of N.C.G.S. §§ 14-58 and -62

Speeding police car causing injury to pedestrian; gross negligence

Usurious loan origination fee; when statute of limitations accrues

Predatory lending; personal jurisdiction over nonresident assignee of mortgage note secured by property located in N.C.

Dismissal of case for discovery violation under N.C. R. Civ. P. 37

Automobile wreck; commercial general insurance policy effect of automobile exclusion clause on coverage

Condemnation action; diminished property value; evidence of lost business profits

Interpretation of consent judgment establishing power company easement

Dismissal of DSS employee with less than two years of service; whether just cause provision of State Personnel Act applies; if so, whether DSS had just cause to terminate; timeliness of appeal; back pay & attorneys' fees

On-call pay rate; sufficiency of affidavits filed in support of summary judgment motions

Possession of stolen vehicle; sufficiency of evidence