Foreclosure- lawful possession-destruction of personal property. After being placed in lawful possession, the buyer of a residence at a forelcosure sale may not dispose of personal property in the residence for ten days.
Conversion-actual damages-nominal damages. if a plaintiff proves her conversion claim but fails to prove actual damages, she is entitled to nominal damages

ad valorem tax assessment

Mandamus; Appeal to County Board of Adjustment

Issues heard for first time on appeal.

Modification of child custody

Plain view doctrine

Cherokee Reservation, State Highway Patrol, motor vehicle laws, enforcement, knoll motion

Double Jeopardy

Closing argument; character evidence

Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's decedent, an employee of a temporary agency that assigned him to work at a County facility, was also a County employee under the special employment doctrine

Whether DSS can voluntarily dismiss a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect before an adjudication hearing is held; interpretation of N.C. R. Civ. P. 41(a) in conjunction with N.C.G.S. ? 7B-201(a)

Whether the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors exceeded its statutory authority or violated the due process rights of a licensee and his company by disciplining them for violating the Board's professional conduct rules

Firearms possession charge; admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) about defendant's previous arrest; whether defendant properly preserved the issue he argued on appeal

On remand; whether trial court erred in granting defendant's pretrial motions to suppress and to dismiss the charge of resisting a public officer

Whether indictments charging Jones with obtaining property by false pretenses and charging his codefendant with trafficking in stolen identities were properly dismissed by the trial court; whether the State offered sufficient proof of identity theft to support Jones's conviction for that offense

N.C. Gen. Stat. 1-69.1; standing

res judicata - claim preclusion: choice of law, declaratory judgments, bankruptcy-advesary proceeding

Impossibility; Contract; Damages