As applied challenge to the Felony Firearms Act under Article I, Section 30 of the North Carolina Constitution

Possession

motion to dismiss; jury instructions; resentencing

Reasonable, articulable suspicion; unsafe movement.

Criminal sufficiency of indictment; manufacturing meth; precursors to manufacture

Motion to quash subpoena

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

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

Condemnation; Eminent Domain; Just Compensation; Fair Market Value

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

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.

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence that defendant failed to report his change of address as required under the N.C. sex offender registration program.

Whether the indictment charging defendant with failure to report his change of address as required under the N.C. sex offender registration program contained a fatal variance.