Voluntary dismissal; bad faith; interlocutory appeal; covenant not to compete

Summary Judgment - Contributory Negligence and Last Clear Chance

Standing for an adjacent landowner's challenge to a rezoning ordinance

Rule 702; Admissibility of HGN test results; Daubert Standard

4th Amendment; warrantless search of defendant's person; search incident to arrest; motion to suppress; plain error review; new argument on appeal not considered by trial court.

Hit and Run Resulting in Death; Hit and Run Resulting in Injury; Lesser Included Offense

Sixth Amendment right of counsel, clear and unequivocal waiver required, knowing and voluntary waiver of right to counsel, misconduct

Rule 60(b) motion; special proceedings; Rule 24 motion to intervene; subject matter jurisdiction

Attorney discipline; magistrates as judicial officers; meaning of tribunal; conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; N.C. Rules of Professional Conduct 3.5(a)(4)(B) and 8.4(d)

Rules of Professional Conduct; Disciplinary Hearing

Public Record Request; No Jurisdiction; Jurisdictional vs. Procedural Rules

Re-zoning; common law vested rights; expired plat approval, development agreements.

Trial court presumed to have jurisdiction

Prejudicial effect of appeal dismissal on subsequent appeal; Rule 12(b)(1); subject matter jurisdiction; standing; Rule 17(a); substitution; ratification

Workers' Compensation Act; application of N.C.G.S. 97-10.2, which states the rights and obligations of an employer and employee regarding payment of benefits under the Act when the employee recovers a settlement in a common law action for damages against a third-party tortfeasor.

Whether the trial court erred in giving a disjunctive jury instruction on one of the elements of first-degree sexual offense; whether the error was prejudicial to defendant.

Conviction for sexual exploitation of a minor under N.C.G.S. 14-190.16; whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling defendant's objection to the prosecutor's closing argument and denying defendant's request for an instruction defining 'oral intercourse' as requiring penetration.

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the affidavit on which a warrant authorizing a search of defendant's property was based established probable cause to issue the warrant.

Whether defendant received adequate notice of his probation revocation hearing pursuant to N.C.G.S. 15A-1345(e).