Whether the trial court properly instructed the jury concerning the extent to which defendant was entitled to exercise the right of self-defense when he was assaulted in his own home.

Whether a condition imposed as a part of a defendant's probation or suspended sentence is reasonably related to the defendant's rehabilitation or violates the defendant's parental rights when the condition prohibits contact between the defendant and the victim of his crime, when the victim also happens to be the sole legal and physical custodian of the defendant's child.

Whether an indictment for attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon which alleges that a defendant attempted to rob a defined group of individuals at a specific location on a particular date was sufficient to place the defendant on notice of the crime he is alleged to have committed and to protect the defendant from double jeopardy.

Whether the Court of Appeals improperly reweighed facts in reversing the trial court's order granting the defendant a new trial.

Attorneys' fees; trial court authority to award fees under N.C. Gen. Stat. 6-19.1 in judicial review proceeding challenging agency decision under N.C. Gen. Stat. 113A-121.1; substantial justification for agency decision; sufficiency of findings of fact

worker's compensation, lump-sum award, weekly benefits, injury, uncommuted value, mortality table, unusual case

special use permit, zoning, halfway house, city council, denial, Standard 7, allows for the protection of property values, competent, material, substantial

discovery sanctions, Rule 37(b)(2), final judgment, mootness, choice of sanctions

child custody, contempt, attorney's fees, consent order, substantial change of circumstances, welfare

Motion to dismiss; statute of limitations; and continuing course of treatment doctrine

Rule 60(b)(6); Modifying Consent Order; Mutual Mistake

denial of visitation; challenged findings of fact; testimony at disposition

Involuntary Commitment; Sufficiency of Findings; Impartial Tribunal

Adoptions NCGS Chapter 48; parental rights; biological father; Due Process; duty to support

Will Caveat; Declaratory Judgment; Mootness

interlocutory appeal; substantial right; arbitration

Interlocutory appeal; substantial right; discovery order; reconsideration order

Stipulations for settlement and withdrawal of consent.

declaratory judgment; will interpretation; former spouse; decedent's siblings; North Carolina General Statutes Sections 31-5.4, 31-42(b); testator's intent; unfulfilled condition precedent; residuary devise; intestacy; reversed

legal malpractice; motion to dismiss; statute of limitations; N.C. Gen. Stat. 1-15(c).