South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) requires any person who has been convicted of an enumerated crime to register as a sex offender, generally for life, but where SORA does not provide any judicial review for registrants ...

Virginia “Ginny” Bozeman has joined Turner Padget, of counsel in the litigation practice group in the firm’s Columbia office. Bozeman focuses her practice on defending physicians, physician practices, and hospitals in medical malpractice litigation and previously practiced in Tennessee for ...

In a case of first impression, the court joined other circuits in holding that, while the Supreme Court in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, 523 U.S. 75 (1998), identified three evidentiary routes for employees to prove they are victims of ...

Where a man who was wrongfully incarcerated for three years for an alleged murder introduced evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude a Baltimore homicide detective withheld exculpatory evidence from the prosecutor, the $15 million verdict was affirmed. Background ...

Where the sentencing document showed the defendant pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in violation of South Carolina law, a clerical error on the same form did not refute the government’s showing that his crime of ...

Where the decedent’s estate argued his suicide was the result of an earlier accident where he was injured by an allegedly defective airbag in his Ford vehicle, the trial court must consider whether the suicide was reasonably foreseeable. Background This ...

Where the defendant’s use of the N-word constituted “abusive language” under Virginia’s “fighting words” statute, but the government offered no evidence that two African American individuals responded violently to the hateful slur or that a reasonable person in their positions ...

Where the Public Interest Legal Foundation requested records of North Carolina voter registrants identified by the Board of Elections as possibly not having satisfied citizenship requirements, the district court erred by ruling the records were not subject to disclosure under ...

Demand for office space is starting to inch back up across the state with owner and investor interest in purchasing office space exceeding supply in the Upstate, according to a Q1 market report from Cushman & Wakefield and Thalhimer. Unemployment rates in ...

Where the district court resolved the defendant’s First Step motion by concluding it would have imposed the same sentence for conspiracy to traffic in crack cocaine had the Fair Sentencing Act been in effect, it erred in not considering intervening ...