Governmental immunity, process, service of process, discontinuance, unnamed parties, motion to dismiss

Domestic violence protective order, personal relationship, judicial admission, illustrative evidence, prejudice.

healthcare, managed care organization, local management entity, Medicaid, health care provider, contract, administrative law, summary judgment, services, utilization review

motion for summary judgment, premises liability

Juvenile delinquency; adjudication and disposition; NCGS 2405(4) privilege against self-incrimination; required findings of fact.

Disposition order; guardianship; abuse of discretion; nonrelative placement; kinship placement; nonsecure custody

neglect adjudication of newborn; sufficiency of the evidence to support findings of fact; sufficiency of findings to support conclusions of law

? juvenile adjudicated delinquent
? trial court failed to address mandated inquiries before accepting juvenile's admission pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-2407(a) (2019)
? reversed and remanded

unchallenged findings of fact supported conclusions of law; no abuse of discretion when ceasing reunification efforts with Respondent-Father

Child support; interlocutory appeal from discovery sanctions; lack of appellate jurisdiction

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction

Tortious interference with prospective economic advantage; summary judgment; Rules of Appellate Procedure; substantial and gross violations.

right to elective share determination proper by clerk of superior court

Kidnapping; sufficient evidence of separate confinement or restraint apart from that inherent in underlying assaults; sufficient evidence of each alternative theory of purpose for kidnapping; challenge to instruction that knife was deadly weapon as matter of law; requirement that evidentiary challenges show prejudice

motion to suppress; probable cause; staleness of information in affidavit; trafficking

DWI, Motion to Suppress; Probable Cause

jury instructions; lesser-included offense; involuntary manslaughter

? Motions to dismiss
? First-degree murder; robbery with a dangerous weapon; discharging a firearm within city limits in violation of local ordinance
? Conflicting evidence of self-defense
? Substantial evidence of premeditation and deliberation
? Taking of weapon and murder were so linked in time to constitute a continuous transaction
? Failure to introduce city ordinance in evidence

Cyberstalking; plain error; challenge to admission of evidence excluded by prior ruling on motion in limine; unpreserved challenge to prosecutor's statements during jury selection

no abuse of discretion where trial court refused to admit evidence of the victim's mental illness because prosecution witness's testimony about victim's mental health was summary and did not open the door to an entirely new line of inquiry on the subject