South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Mount Pleasant man has been accused of participating in a $200 million scheme to defraud Medicare through kickbacks and bribes in exchange for medically unnecessary medical equipment. The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on ...

Brantley Thomas, former CFO of the Berkeley County School District, was sentenced to 11 years in South Carolina prison on April 12 after pleading guilty to 35 charges of public corruption and two charges related to stealing from a business that ...

Even though plaintiff’s decedent went to a VA doctor because he was suicidal, and even though plaintiff characterizes her decedent’s death as “suicide by cop,” plaintiff has failed to show that the doctor’s treatment of the decedent was the proximate ...

Where the plaintiff-employee complained to the defendant-employer’s human resources department after she learned that a manager had called her a “slow black worker,” and where plaintiff was suspended four days later and terminated nine days later for purportedly having failed ...

While it is not excessive force, per se, for a police officer to point a taser at an unarmed suspect, there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether it was reasonable for an officer to point a ...

Where a defendant who was being held at a county jail admitted to distributing methamphetamine during questioning by his parole officer, it did not violate the Fifth Amendment to use that admission to prove that the defendant violated his supervised ...

A parole board is not required to consider age-related mitigating characteristics of a defendant who was sentenced in 1988 when he was 17, to life with the possibility of parole. While the Supreme Court has addressed the sentencing of minors ...

It is true that—as the family court found—the plaintiff-husband did not present proof that the defendant-wife cohabited with a paramour for a continuous period of 90 days, which is a ground for terminating alimony under S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-130(B). ...

The plaintiff in this slip-and-fall case knew the defendant-hospital was a charitable entity (and in fact so alleged in his complaint); moreover, the parties’ attorneys repeatedly discussed the $300,000 cap set out in the Charitable Funds Act. Even though the ...

When William D. Paredeses’ 2008 will was found in his home after his death in 2016, handwritten changes had been made to the will: the bequest in Item IV(2) was struck through, and “Omit #2 W.D. Paradeses” was written next ...