⚖️ Supreme Court of North Carolina

Evidence considered in the light most favorable to the State was sufficient to support the trial court's decision to submit multiple counts of conspiracy to the jury....

Whether magistrates are other officers under N.C.G.S. 58-76-5 and accordingly may be sued under their official bond and whether judicial immunity is an available defense to official capacity claims ag...

Whether the Court of Appeals correctly concluded that plaintiff's medical malpractice action was barred by the applicable statute of limitations....

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant qualified as a resident of her mother's household for purposes of the underinsured motorist policy issued to her mother....

Officers had independent reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop. The traffic stop did not violate defendant's Fourth Amendment rights....

Whether a trial court reversibly errs in failing to exercise its discretion to hear oral testimony at summary judgment based on a misapprehension of law....

Whether this Court properly granted the State's petition for certiorari, and whether a police officer had probable cause to arrest a motorist for driving while impaired....

Whether defendant is entitled to an instruction on second-degree murder as a lesser-included offense of first-degree murder pursued under the theory of felony murder....

Whether defendant's Batson claims are procedurally barred under N.C.G.S. 15A-1419....

Whether the common law crime of going armed to the terror of the public contains an essential element that the conduct occur on a public highway....

Whether the trial court erred in its interpretation of N.C.G.S. 14 208.12A and its denial of defendant's petition for removal from the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry....

Whether the trial court possessed jurisdiction to revoke a defendant's probation after the defendant's term of probation had expired....

Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for the second of two counts of first-degree kidnapping given that the indictment alleged that defendant had co...

Whether the admission of testimony describing the alleged victim's account as 'rock solid' constituted plain error....

Whether the trial court committed prejudicial error by declining defendant's request to issue a jury instruction on involuntary manslaughter....

Whether defendant's actions were sufficiently egregious to permit the trial court to determine that defendant had waived or forfeited her constitutional right to counsel....

Whether the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in McLeod v. J.E. Dilworth Co., 322 U.S. 327 (1944) prevents the assessment of North Carolina sales tax on purchases from a Wisconsin-based pri...

Whether a deceased employee's prior filing of a workers' compensation claim is sufficient to invoke the Industrial Commission's jurisdiction over a dependent's subsequent claim for death benefits unde...

Whether the trial court violated respondent's confrontation right by incorporating the report of a non-testifying physician into its findings of fact and whether the trial court's findings were suffic...

Whether the trial court violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding when the State did not appear and the trial court elicited evidence to ...

Whether respondent-parent's counsel was properly allowed to withdraw when, under the totality of the circumstances, the record reflected no notice to respondent-parent that his counsel could withdraw ...

Whether the trial court properly verified that a juvenile's permanent custodial placement (1) understood the legal significance of the child's placement within the home and (2) possessed the appropria...

Whether the trial court violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding when the State did not appear and the trial court elicited evidence to ...

Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying, without explanation, the city's Motion to Modify Restrictions....

Whether the trial court violated respondent's due process right to an impartial tribunal in an involuntary commitment proceeding when the State did not appear and the trial court elicited evidence to ...

Whether the record evidence and the trial court's findings of fact support its decision that respondent should have been involuntarily committed for additional inpatient mental health treatment....

Whether the trial court's order finding that a law imposing a photo identification requirement for voters violates the equal protection guarantee of Art. I section 19 of the North Carolina Constitutio...