Charleston County attorney reinstated

County law enforcement fee upheld for Hilton Head properties

  The South Carolina Supreme Court held that Beaufort County’s ordinance imposing a law enforcement service charge and user fee on property owners in the Town of Hilton Head Island […]

Adultery justified unequal division of marital estate

  The South Carolina Court of Appeals held that a husband was entitled to a larger share of the marital estate and an award of attorneys’ fees after obtaining a […]

OSHA challenge barred by six-year statute of limitations

  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that South Carolina’s challenge to a 2016 Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule was barred by the Administrative Procedure Act’s six-year […]

Home detention cannot exceed remaining incarceration authority

  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that home detention under 18 U.S.C. § 3563(b)(19) may be imposed only as a substitute for incarceration and therefore cannot, when […]

File-sharing conviction qualifies as crime of child abuse under immigration law

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a New Jersey conviction for knowingly maintaining child sexual abuse material on a file-sharing network categorically qualifies as a removable crime […]

Sentencing enhancement vacated for lack of predicate felony findings

  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a felon-in-possession conviction but vacated the defendant’s 100-month sentence, holding that the district court failed to identify or make the factual […]

Fraud claims against hospital revived in surgery dispute 

  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court applied the wrong statute of limitations when it dismissed fraud and conspiracy claims arising from a hospital’s […]

Court of Appeals affirms combined reporting for Tractor Supply tax dispute

The South Carolina Department of Revenue proved the retailer’s separate entity reporting method failed to fairly represent its business activity in the state because intercompany transfer pricing arrangements artificially shifted […]

SC Supreme Court affirms denial of arbitration at Palmetto Bluff over unlawful limitations period

  A Palmetto Bluff resort-community arbitration clause was unenforceable because the parties did not clearly delegate arbitrability issues to an arbitrator and the provision’s 60-day deadline for initiating arbitration unlawfully […]