Workers' compensation; denial of additional treatment; award of attorneys' fees for unfounded litigiousness under N.C. Gen. Stat. 97-88.1

Contempt; failure to pay child care expenses under court order; willfulness requirement; insufficient findings of fact

modification of child support; calculation of gross income; witness credibility; issue abandoned on appeal

Modification of child custody order; substantial change of circumstances; N.C.G.S. 50-13.7

Motion to dismiss; sovereign immunity; tribal defendants; Native American tribe; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; interlocutory; appellate jurisdiction; real property; easements

Res ipsa loquitur; negligence; medical negligence; medical malpractice; special pleading requirements; Rule 9(j); Rules of Civil Procedure; motion to dismiss; interlocutory appeal; appellate jurisdiction; and vicarious liability.

Invited instructional error; indecent liberties; double jeopardy.

Anders brief; prior record level; sentence dispositions; sentence duration

Ineffective assistance of counsel claim; opening door to inadmissible evidence; sufficiency of evidence of two separate assaults

wrongful death while in custody; interlocutory appeal based on sovereign, governmental, or qualified immunity; trial court correctly granted in part and denied in part motion to dismiss; no immediate appeal of right existed from trial court's denial of claim for temporary or permanent injunction

Right to appeal; motion to intervene; Rule 3; abandonment.

motion to compel arbitration; arbitration; substantial right; wrongful death; scope of arbitration; validity of arbitration agreement

untimely notice of appeal

Workers' Compensation Act; injury by accident; extra exertion; insufficient finding of fact and conclusion of law; reversed and remanded

Medicaid; Medicare; dual eligible; N.C.G.S. § 108A-55.1; unpromulgated rule; Duke Univ. Med. Ctr. v. Bruton.

Child custody, cessation of reunification as secondary plan

juvenile, caretaker, reunification, visitation, grandfather, mental health, placement, removal parent, dependent, venue, minor, subject matter jurisdiction, standing, social services, DSS, conflict of interest, disposition, adjudication

independent review under Anders and In re LEM revealed no meritorious issue where counsel did not argue error in trial proceedings