South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY JOSH VAN KAMPEN Lawyers don’t appear to be in danger of being replaced by artificial intelligence, but employers are increasingly turning to proprietary AI programs to automate the recruiting arm of their human resource departments. In fact, AI is ...

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  With the workforce small and the number of people in recovery on the rise, people who treat and coach substance abusers say the time has come for hiring managers to see people in recovery as an opportunity and not ...

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The defendant-attorney’s communications with plaintiffs were insufficient to show the formation of a partnership; however, an ambiguous “letter of intent” may, with parol evidence, lead to a finding of breach of contract. The court denies plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss defendant’s ...

There were technical defects in plaintiffs’ service of process on defendants Hynie and Brown in the United Kingdom; however, there is no indication that Hynie and Brown failed to receive notice of this action. Furthermore, Rule 4(m), FRCP, gives plaintiff ...

A medical malpractice claim for injuries sustained during childbirth did not accrue until the child’s second birthday because unrebutted expert testimony indicated that the cause of the injury could not have been determined before that date. Background Erick, a minor ...

Despite being conducted in a public area, an officer’s strip search of the passenger of a car stopped for a traffic violation did not violate the passenger’s Fourth Amendment rights because the search was limited in scope and manner and ...

Where the government failed to demonstrate that booking.com was a generic term that could not be trademarked, and Booking.com demonstrated that the descriptive term has gained a secondary meaning, the website is entitled to a trademark. Background Booking.com operates a ...

Although the defendant’s original plea agreement mistakenly sentenced him as an armed career criminal, it was not necessary to reduce his sentence on the other counts as the sentence given on those counts still upheld the benefits the defendant bargained ...

Where a plaintiff was entitled to use eminent domain to obtain rights-of-way to portions of private property, that plaintiff was likewise entitled to begin construction on those properties before the value of just compensation had been determined and paid. Background ...

Defendant was properly designated as a sexually dangerous person despite not being diagnosed with a paraphilic disorder because his diagnosis of a mixed personality disorder and an alcohol use disorder satisfied the statute’s mental illness requirement and the government sufficiently ...