Whether the decision of the North Carolina Utilities Commission to authorize the amortization of the costs of remediating coal ash waste to rates over a ten-year period while denying the Company the ability to earn a return on the unamortized balance of those costs was arbitrary and capricious.

Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences which together make a juvenile defendant eligible for parole after forty-five years in prison constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to a juvenile offender found guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree rape and who the trial court determined was neither incorrigible nor irredeemable.

Whether the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence.

Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences of life with parole constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to juvenile offender found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder who trial court determined to be not incorrigible.

Petition for writ of certiorari; whether the Court of Appeals is constrained by N.C. R. App. P. 21 in exercising its discretion to allow or deny the writ.

Whether the trial court's findings of fact in its order denying defendant's motion to suppress were supported by competent evidence; whether the seizure and subsequent search of defendant was constitutional.

Personal jurisdiction; whether a nonresident defendant's contract has a substantial connection with North Carolina.

summary judgment; plaintiff's recovery barred by contributory negligence; no gross negligence

Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss; Service of the complaint and summons on an uninsured motorist carrier; NCGS 20-279.21(b)(3)(a); and statute of limitations

Visitation; length of visitation; virtual visitation; neglect; prejudicial statements from the bench; case plan requirements; motion for review of visitation plan.

Termination of parental rights, required findings of fact to support adjudication, circumstances at the time of hearing

Rule 60(b); Consent Domestic Violence Protection Order; No Findings of Fact or Conclusions of Law

probation violation, unchallenged findings & conclusions, no notice of appeal, extension of supervision, direct criminal contempt, PWC, N.C. Gen. Stat. 1347, N.C. Gen. Stat. 5A-11

defense of others; jury instruction; disqualifying felony; causal nexus; prejudicial error; motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence.

ordinance, zoning, board of adjustment, vested rights

standing; zoning; action for declaratory judgment; trial court did not err in dismissing complaint for lack of standing where adjacent landowner only supported his allegations of standing with owner's opinion evidence of diminution in value and allegations did not allege how his property was affected by rezoning distinct from the community

Subject Matter Jurisdiction, State Health Plan, Denial of Coverage, External Review Organization, Appeal to Industrial Commission, Sovereign Immunity

motor vehicle lien; legal possessor; N.C.G.S. 44A