Action seeking trial court's enforcement of its previous order requiring DHHS to use the federal poverty level for a family when determining petitioner's income eligibility for Medicaid benefits; whether the trial court properly dismissed the action for lack of jurisdiction because petitioner did not exhaust her administrative remedies before taking the issue directly to court.

Workers' Compensation; whether, when reviewing an appeal from an Industrial Commission decision that an attorney's fee was unreasonable, the superior court exceeded its authority under N.C.G.S. 97-90(c) and thus lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over the appeal.

Appeal by defendant from order imposing lifetime satellite-based monitoring on grounds that the trial court did not make a finding of 'reasonableness' before ordering SBM; whether the Court of Appeals erred by dismissing defendant's untimely appeal from the trial court's order, to which he did not object at trial.

Appeal from convictions for violations of the Controlled Substances Act following defendant's guilty plea; whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress incriminating evidence recovered from the trunk of his car; whether defendant was 'seized' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

Declaratory Judgment; Restrictive covenants; General scheme of development; Radical changes to covenanted area; Waiver of right to enforce covenants

Industrial Commission; workers compensation; Parsons presumption; compensability; burden of proof

Sex discrimination; hostile work environment; office of administrative hearings; judicial notice; just cause; subject matter jurisdiction; administrative remedies; ?whole record? test

child support, change of circumstances, income, expenses

Parental rights, termination, neglect, willfulness, reasonable progress, visitation, best interest of the child

termination of parental rights

juvenile delinquency; mandatory referral to area mental health services director when trial court presented with evidence that juvenile is mentally ill

Parental rights; termination; domestic violence; DVPO; abandonment; willfulness; child support; notice

termination of parental rights; neglected juvenile

termination of parental rights; neglected juvenile

termination of parental rights, no merit brief, Rule 3.1(e)

Wills, property rights, life estate, remaindermen, timber rights, trover, indemnity

Full Faith and Credit; service of process; default judgment; foreign jurisdiction