South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Although prior convictions for robbery are not crimes of dishonesty, they may still have impeachment value under Rule 609(a)(1), SCRE. We modify and affirm our Court of Appeals’ decision affirming the trial court’s admission of evidence of defendant’s prior ...

Santee Cooper has filed a federal complaint seeking a formal declaration that the state-owned utility is the sole owner of equipment purchased for the abandoned nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power station. The utility is asking a New ...

The plaintiff-limited liability company and its investing member allege that, after the LLC’s managing member became the target of a federal investigation, the managing member transferred $5,000,000 of the investing member’s investment to the defendant-law firm’s IOLTA account. Plaintiff is ...

A defendant who pleaded guilty to taking custodial indecent liberties with a child, a felony under Virginia law, was deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act because the offense categorically qualified as the aggravated felony of sexual abuse of a ...

Plaintiffs could not bring a claim for damages against ICE agents who allegedly violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights because recognizing a Bivens remedy in this context was unwarranted given Congress’s refusal to provide such a remedy in any ...

Years after the expiration of the statute of limitations, homeowners can still sue lenders for allegedly violating an anti-kickback law because they plausibly alleged the lenders concealed their conduct sufficient to toll the statute of limitations. Background Each of the ...

A district judge could reject a plea agreement if the court was concerned it was too lenient or questioned whether it served the public interest. Once the court rejected the plea agreement, it did not err in rejecting the defendant’s ...

Although a district court made errors in certifying a defendant class, including failing to timely appoint class counsel or ensuring the requirements of Federal Rule 23 were satisfied, the objecting parties’ failure to timely object to these defects and the ...

Pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-150(3), an annexation is complete only upon the acceptance of a petition – signed by all persons who own real estate in the annexed area – requesting annexation. Where the defendant-town never received a ...

Even though plaintiff’s decedent (her uncle) signed a durable power of attorney for finance in favor of plaintiff before he entered defendant’s nursing facility, the finance power of attorney was not recorded until after plaintiff signed the decedent’s admission forms, ...