South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Where the Federal Power Act, or FPA, requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, to take steps before it can bring claims against those charged with manipulation of the energy markets, the five-year statute of limitations for filing ...

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, erred when it required a permanent custody order before it would allow an immigrant to qualify for special juvenile status because that requirement is not found in the statute. Background In late ...

In another example of how quickly courts are moving to accommodate the need to practice social distancing in order to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has suspended a rule that requires parties to ...

  Where the Board of Immigration Appeals instructed the Immigration Judge to allow a petitioner from Cameroon to explain inconsistencies in her prior testimony, her due process rights were violated when the judge denied her application for asylum before she ...

  The plaintiff-vendor, who tripped and fell in the parking lot of a convention center owned by the defendant-city, presented sufficient evidence to go to the jury on the question of whether she was an invitee or licensee of the ...

  On a matter of first impression, we hold that a trial court could find a crime scene analysis expert’s testimony, which did not rise to the level of criminal profiling, reliable. We reverse the Court of Appeals and reinstate ...

  Where a juror failed to reveal her relationship with a defendant and his witnesses, and where she convinced at least one other juror to change her vote, the fundamental fairness of the trial was severely hampered, and the circumstances ...

  Defendant defrauded 688 investors of more than $3 million. He pleaded guilty to securities fraud, forgery and conspiracy pursuant to a plea agreement in which the state agreed not to argue for any specific sentence. Although the circuit court ...

  Regardless of the single commissioner’s opinion about the claimant’s “inconsistent performance” at his workers’ compensation hearing, objective medical tests showed that the claimant’s eardrums had been ruptured and that he had suffered profound hearing loss after an explosion at ...

  In this case involving equitable indemnity from a third-party defendant, we follow the majority rule as to attorney’s fees: the third-party plaintiffs may recover the attorneys’ fees they incurred in defending the underlying lawsuit but not the attorneys’ fees ...