Voluntary commitment of a minor based on diagnoses of mental illness; whether N.C.G.S.? 122C-224.3(c)allows admission of certified copies of medical reports and records only if the minor is permitted to confront and cross-examine witnesses who prepared the reports.

Appeal from order granting general rate increase to electric power company

The trial court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress contraband obtained via a warrantless search; plain view doctrine; plain error review

Workers' Compensation; request by plaintiff-employee to reinstate suspended disability benefits; whether, when determining the merits of plaintiff's case, the Industrial Commission erred in failing to address a deputy commissioner's previous dismissal of the claim under Commission Rule 613

Motion by defendant for change of venue; whether sufficient evidence was presented that plaintiff was a resident of the county in which he filed the action; whether the trial court erred in denying the motion

When defendant was convicted of violating a domestic violence protective order while possessing a deadly weapon, whether the trial court committed plain error in not instructing the jury on the lesser included offense of misdemeanor violation of a DVPO.

Interpretation of definition of elder adult under N.C.G.S. 14-112.2 (2011)

Motor vehicle wreck caused by underinsured driver; judgment for plaintiff against defendant tortfeasor; whether defendant can receive credit against the amount of the judgment owed by him for monies paid to plaintiff by plaintiff's UIM and workers' compensation carriers

First-degree murder (capital/death)

Whether sufficient evidence supported defendant's request for a jury instruction on involuntary manslaughter