Termination of Parental Rights; Permanency Planning.

parents constitutionally protected status, custody dispute between parent and non-parent, substantial change of circumstances, juvenile proceeding

Indemnification; negligence as bar; unambiguous contract; license; summary judgment de novo review.

Land use; procedural due process; quasi-judicial and ministerial/administrative land use decisions; exercise of discretion in application of generally stated standards is quasi-judicial in nature; application of specific, neutral, and objective criteria as set out in applicable regulations is ministerial/administrative in nature

Woodson Claim; Pleasant Claim; Summary Judgment

real estate commission, duty of good faith and fair dealing, parol evidence rule

NCGS 20-38.7(a); NCGS 15A-1432; Record on Appeal; Jurisdiction; State's appeal of Suppression to Superior Court.

Governmental immunity, motion to dismiss, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-167, indemnification of city employees

Child custody dispute between parent and nonparent; Non-biological grandmother, intervenor, who helped raise child had standing to intervene in child custody proceedings but was not entitled to custody or visitation where intervenor failed to demonstrate that mother was unfit or acted inconsistently with her protected parental status; Mother's decision to grant exclusive custody of her child to child's biological grandmother was not conduct inconsistent with her protected status, where evidence showed intervenor had purposefully impeded mother's ability to assume her role as her child's parent, and this custodial arrangement allowed mother to assume her role as her child's mother in future.

Deficiency Judgment Act, Summary Judgment, Property Value.