Supreme Court
N.C. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Hull
Subrogation action to recover money paid under the UIM coverage provision of a policy issued by plaintiff after plaintiff's insureds obtained a settlement from another fully insured third-party tortfeasor; whether plaintiff's claim should have been dismissed based on the three-year statute of limitations for breach of contract actions; when the claim accrued.
Wilkie v. City of Boiling Spring Lakes
Action for inverse condemnation pursuant to N.C.G.S. 40A-51 based upon the flooding of plaintiffs' property by water from an adjacent City-owned lake.
In re J.A.M.
Minor child; adjudication of neglect and dispositional order ceasing reunification efforts; whether clear and convincing evidence supported findings of fact on which the order was based.
State v. Schalow
Whether defendant's conviction for attempted first-degree murder should be vacated on double jeopardy grounds.
Allied Spectrum, LLC v. Ger. Auto Ctr., Inc.
Civil action for breach of contract and related claims; whether plaintiff was entitled to voluntarily dismiss its case under Civil Procedure Rule 41(a)(1) after end of summary judgment hearing but before the court issued its ruling; whether the trial court erred in entering summary judgment for defendants.
Abrons Fam. Prac. & Urgent Care, PA v. N.C. Dep't of Health & Hum. Servs.
Civil complaint filed by various medical practices to recover damages and other relief for the State's failure to properly implement a new electronic payment system to reimburse plaintiffs for their services to Medicaid-eligible patients; whether the trial court erred in dismissing plaintiffs' complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs did not exhaust their administrative remedies before filing a civil suit.
Willowmere Cmty. Ass'n v. City of Charlotte
Whether the trial court erred in dismissing an action brought by plaintiff homeowners' associations seeking to invalidate the City's rezoning of adjacent property; whether the failure of plaintiffs' boards of directors to comply with association bylaws authorizing them to initiate litigation on behalf of the members deprived plaintiffs of legal standing to sue.
State v. Chekanow
Sufficiency of evidence that defendants constructively possessed marijuana found growing on their property.
King v. Albemarle Hosp. Auth.
Medical malpractice action on behalf of minor child for birth-related injuries; whether, after the complaint was dismissed under Rule 41 and refiled six years later, N.C.G.S. 1-17(b) extended the three-year statute of limitations for professional malpractice actions established in N.C.G.S 15(c), thus preventing the refiled complaint from being time barred.
N.C. Dep't of Transp. v. Mission Battleground Park, DST
Condemnation proceeding under Chapter 136 to take a portion of defendants' property for highway improvement purposes; whether the trial court abused its discretion in excluding expert opinion testimony on valuation offered by defendants because the trial court did not consider admissibility of the testimony under Evidence Rule 702 rather than N.C.G.S. 93A-83; whether it was improper for the trial court to instruct the jury that the jury should not consider the taking and use of adjoining lands of others for the same undertaking in determining just compensation.