Customer's fall on defendant's premises; negligence; should directed verdict have been set aside & new trial ordered?

First-degree murder (capital/death)

No error guilt-innocence phase; no error capital sentencing proceeding; non-capital sentencing vacated and remanded for resentencing

Midyear income tax increase applicable to entire tax year; constitutionality under Art. I, Sec. 16 of N.C.

Application of Blakely v. Washington and State v. Allen to defendant sentenced in the presumptive range

Domestic violence protective orders; equitable distribution; property included in marital estate

N.C.G.S. § 108A-57(a); extent of DMA's subrogation right when only part of a settlement is for medical expenses caused by the settling tortfeasor

Automobile wreck; N.C.G.S. § 20-279.21(b)(4); amount of UIM coverage when insured did not have chance to reject coverage or select different coverage limits

Workers' Compensation; carpal tunnel syndrome; proof of disability under Russell v. Lowes Prod. Distrib'n

Minor child; sufficiency of evidence of grounds to terminate parental rights