Libel per se; unfair or deceptive trade practices

Time is of the essence contract clause; breach of contract; waiver

Personal jurisdiction; Individual liability for corporate acts; Allegations of piercing the corporate veil

First-degree kidnapping; evidence; effective assistance of counsel

Littering

Right to a jury trial; double jeopardy

Admissibility of police officer's lay witness testimony that substance was cocaine

DWI; sufficiency of the evidence; Double Jeopardy

State's right to appeal; writ of mandamus

Agency age discrimination; Standard of Review; Conflicting evidence; Substitution of judgment

Contractor's abandonment of construction project; can contractor's failure to defend and subsequent entry of default judgment against it terminate subcontractor's right to a lien on the property on which improvements were made?

Contractor's abandonment of construction project; can contractor's failure to defendant and subsequent entry of default judgment against it terminate subcontractor's right to a lien on the property on which improvements were made?

Whether plaintiff's forecast evidence of negligence was sufficient to survive summary judgment for defendant or was mere speculation

Construction contract; indemnity

Batson v. Kentucky challenge to prosecution's use of peremptory challenges; appeal from trial court's order following remand for hearing after defendant's conviction and sentence of death for first-degree murder

Alleged traffic violation; reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle; motion to suppress evidence and statements

Appeal from conviction of driving while license suspended; whether the State was entitled to a presumption that it complied with N.C.G.S. § 20-48(a) (2005) when it notified defendant of the suspension

Vehicle stop based solely on officer's knowledge that the owner's driver's license is suspended; motion to suppress based on lack of reasonable suspicion to stop

Workers' Compensation; change in condition under N,C.G.S. § 97-47