Appellate Court Opinions

Slip opinions (court's decision in a case) filed and written by the justices of the Supreme Court or judges of the Court of Appeals

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16,007 Appellate Court Opinions

, Court of Appeals , COA15-391 (Judge Donna Stroud) , Published
State v Kpaeyeh

speedy trial, motion to dismiss, satellite-based monitoring

, Court of Appeals , COA15-267 (Judge Donna Stroud) , Published
State v Moultry

relevancy, corroboration, lay opinion

, Court of Appeals , COA15-443 (Judge Ann Calabria) , Published
State v Watkins

De Novo Sentencing Default Rule; Interpreting General and Limited Remands.

, Court of Appeals , COA15-811 (Judge Linda McGee) , Published
State v. Bonetsky

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

, Court of Appeals , COA15-526 (Judge Douglas McCullough) , Published
State v. Hallum

motion to dismiss; jury instructions; resentencing

, Court of Appeals , COA15-793 (Judge Lucy Inman) , Published
State v. Johnson

Reasonable, articulable suspicion; unsafe movement.

, Court of Appeals , COA15-508 (Judge Martha Geer) , Published
State v. Oxendine

Criminal sufficiency of indictment; manufacturing meth; precursors to manufacture

, Court of Appeals , COA15-615 (Judge Chris Dillon) , Published
State v. Stith

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

, Court of Appeals , COA14-1344 (Judge Donna Stroud) , Published
Stokes v Crumpton

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

, Court of Appeals , COA15-1201 (Judge John Tyson) , Published
Whicker v. Compass Grp. USA, Inc.

Workers Compensation; Joint Employment Doctrine; Lent Employee Doctrine; Implied Contract of Employment; Burden of Proof

, Supreme Court , 316A14 (Justice Robert Edmunds Jr.) , Published
Beverage Sys. of the Carolinas, LLC v. Associated Beverage Repair, LLC

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.

, Supreme Court , 224PA15 (Per Curiam) , Published
In re Foreclosure of Brown

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.

, Supreme Court , 340A15 (Per Curiam) , Published
In re M.P.M.

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.

, Supreme Court , 119PA15 (Justice Barbara Jackson) , Published
In re N.T.

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.