Supreme Court
Hoke Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. State of N.C.
Whether, under extraordinary circumstances, the trial court properly ordered certain state actors to transfer available state funds to remedy an ongoing constitutional violation.
Supreme Court Opinions Filed November 4, 2022
State v. Gaddis
Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for a transcript of a prior trial and motion to continue.
State v. Jones
Whether the trial court deprived defendant of his right to confront witnesses against him at defendant's probation revocation hearing.
Wing v. Goldman Sachs Tr. Co., N.A.
Revocable trust; appellate jurisdiction, trial court's subject matter jurisdiction, and the trustee's duties and powers concerning trust litigation.
Nation Ford Baptist Church, Inc. v. Davis
Whether the trial court could entertain any of the claims brought by the former pastor of a church who alleged he was improperly terminated by the church's Board of Directors, or whether doing so required the court to become impermissibly entangled with ecclesiastical matters in violation of the First Amendment.
Miller v. Carolina Coast Emergency Physicians, LLC
Whether a motion to dismiss for failure to comply with Rule 9(j) should be assessed based on what the plaintiff reasonably believed at the time the Rule 9(j) certification was filed. Whether the Court of Appeals utilized the correct standard of review in examining whether certain evidence was properly admitted under Rule 702.
N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. Moore
Whether a General Assembly comprised of legislators elected pursuant to legislative districts that had been determined to be unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered possessed the authority to initiate the process for amending the North Carolina Constitution.
State v. Oglesby
Whether a juvenile defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel during a resentencing hearing because counsel did not ask the court to run all of the defendant's sentences concurrently.
Connette v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth.
Whether advanced practice registered nurses owe a statutory, professional duty of care to patients in the context of the planning of, collaboration on, and selection of a patient's treatment.