South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorney: Gregory Alan Newell Location: Greenville Bar membership: First admitted in 1981 Disciplinary action: Readmitted to the practice of law on Feb. 20 Background: In April 2002, the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended Newell from the practice of law for ...

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Attorney: Christi Anne Misocky Location: Monroe, North Carolina (formerly of Fort Mill) Bar membership: Member since 2009 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on March 1. Background: On Feb. 15 Misocky was arrested and charged ...

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Attorney: Jonathan L.B. Davis Location: Blythewood Bar membership: Member since 2003 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year on Feb. 27, retroactive to the date of his interim suspension. Background: A married couple retained Davis to ...

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Attorney: Fulton Casey Dale Cornwell Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2005 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on Feb. 27 Background: Cornwell’s order of disbarment notes 12 separate matters, mostly related to his work representing clients in post-conviction relief matters. In November ...

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Providing inadequate lighting and precluding “ghost tour” participants from using their cell phones as supplemental lighting to descend stairs could be found by a jury to constitute acts that made the plaintiff-tour participant’s use of the historic jail dangerous. Thus, ...

Under the Tyger River doctrine, an insured can be entitled to recover excess judgment beyond the policy limits from its insurer if the excess judgment was caused by the insurer’s bad faith refusal to settle or defend a case. Although ...

Although the but-for standard of proof applicable to age discrimination cases is more demanding than the motivating-factor standard of proof applied to Title VII claims, a plaintiff’s prima facie case, combined with sufficient evidence that the employer’s asserted justification is ...

The plaintiff-prisoner contends that, by arbitrarily and capriciously denying his fiancée visiting privileges and by failing to investigate whether his fiancée was a security threat, defendants violated his right to free association; however, an inmate has no absolute right to ...

Where a church’s petition to operate on property made substantial efforts to comply with the applicable zoning laws and was not opposed by the relevant authorities, the denial of the petition after objections from the surrounding community constituted religious discrimination. ...

While the question of whether a government would acquiesce in torture is a question of fact for jurisdictional purposes, for purposes of an appeal, it is a mixed question of law and fact that is subject to de novo review. ...