Supreme Court
Dickson v. Rucho
On remand; application of U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, ___ U.S. ___, 135 S. Ct. 1257 (2015), to this Court's prior decision affirming the 2011 N.C. Congressional, Senate, and House redistricting plans.
In re Blue Ridge Hous. of Bakersville LLC
Exemption of low-income housing project from ad valorem taxation under N.C.G.S. ?? 105-278.6(a)(8) and -277.16
Rutherford Plantation, LLC v. Challenge Golf Grp. of the Carolinas, LLC
Action to recover balance due on a purchase money promissory note and secured by a purchase money deed of trust; trial court's grant of partial summary judgment for amount due on note; whether the trial court made an error of law for which defendant is entitled to amendment of the partial summary judgment order
Glens of Ironduff Prop. Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. Daly
Whether the six year statute of repose applicable to a homeowners' association's claim for negligent road construction is tolled by N.C.G.S. ? 47F-3-111(c) until the period of declarant control terminates
State v. Whittington
Whether a defendant's Confrontation Clause rights were violated when a witness who did not conduct tests identifying a substance as opium testified to the results of an analysis done by a nontestifying chemist; application of the waiver provisions of N.C.G.S. ? 90-95(g)
State v. Howard
Firearms possession charge; admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) about defendant's previous arrest; whether defendant properly preserved the issue he argued on appeal
In re E.H.
Whether DSS can voluntarily dismiss a juvenile petition alleging abuse and neglect before an adjudication hearing is held; interpretation of N.C. R. Civ. P. 41(a) in conjunction with N.C.G.S. ? 7B-201(a)
In re Suttles Surveying, P.A.
Whether the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors exceeded its statutory authority or violated the due process rights of a licensee and his company by disciplining them for violating the Board's professional conduct rules
Gregory v. Pearson
Workers' Compensation; whether plaintiff's decedent, an employee of a temporary agency that assigned him to work at a County facility, was also a County employee under the special employment doctrine
State v. Jones
Whether indictments charging Jones with obtaining property by false pretenses and charging his codefendant with trafficking in stolen identities were properly dismissed by the trial court; whether the State offered sufficient proof of identity theft to support Jones's conviction for that offense