South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

South Carolina is one of 24 states receiving more than $2.2 million to help people with criminal records find jobs, according to a news release from the United States Department of Labor. South Carolina is getting $64, 373. Most of ...

A sports management firm with an ownership interest in a minor league baseball team in Charleston couldn’t get to first base in its efforts to have a copyright lawsuit against it thrown out of a South Carolina federal court. David ...

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Six weeks before plaintiffs’ decedent applied for life insurance, his doctor noted that he had COPD; consequently, it was reasonable for the defendant-insurer to assume that the decedent knew he had COPD. However, given the wording of the application question ...

A defendant could not argue the statute of limitations expired on his illegal reentry charge because he fled from justice in the intervening years, which tolled the statute of limitations. Background Delfino Natalio De Leon-Ramirez was indicted for illegal reentry ...

The district court erred by revoking the defendant’s supervised release on the basis he had been found guilty of possession with intent to distribute “crack cocaine” because the evidence showed the drug was powder cocaine. However, because possessing and intending ...

A satellite television provider is responsible for a $61 million judgment because its outside sales agent violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, by calling persons on the national Do-Not-Call registry. Background Dr. Thomas Krakauer brought suit against Dish ...

S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-1230 requires immediate entry into the Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect of the name of a person administratively determined to have harmed or threatened to harm a child. The statute is thus intended to ...

Where defendant’s first Rule 29(a), SCRCrimP, motion merely sought to correct clerical errors in order to clarify the sentencing sheets, the trial court lacked jurisdiction to hear defendant’s second Rule 29(a) motion – which sought a reduced sentence based on ...

  The 4 Circuit, sitting en banc, holds that a Chapter 13 plan may bifurcate a claim based on an undersecured homestead mortgage into secured and unsecured components and cram down the unsecured component, overruling a 1997 decision that had ...

  Since plaintiff’s claims arise out of an unincorporated association’s alleged use of photographs of a Charleston baseball stadium, the court has specific jurisdiction over the unincorporated association, which has as a “core business” the ownership of a Minor League ...