South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The South Carolina Supreme Court has denied a petition from The Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church in South Carolina asking the court to enforce its decision about 29 properties currently held by a breakaway group. The court ruled in ...

The law regarding scandalous trademarks is having an eventful decade. Back in 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected a proposed—and quite racy—trademark for a lollipop aimed at fans of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. (You can surely ...

Where an individual was twice deemed incompetent to stand trial on charges of sexual assault and abuse of female minors, holding a commitment hearing to determine whether the individual should be indefinitely committed to the custody of the Attorney General ...

A district court that found a police officer entitled to qualified immunity erred by failing to construe evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, who was shot by the officer. A majority of the court held the facts ...

The Board of Immigration Appeals acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it upheld the decision of an immigration judge denying asylum and other relief to an unmarried mother who was repeatedly extorted by a gang member and faced a high risk ...

Defendant’s belligerence at the scene of a traffic accident led a deputy sheriff to place defendant in the back of his squad car. This excused the failure of the state’s video recording to show defendant while he was given his ...

Although the parties are engaged in separate litigation in which discovery is available, plaintiff filed a request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. We decline to impose a blanket prohibition on FOIA disclosure whenever the person seeking public ...

The Appellate Panel of the Workers’ Compensation Commission addressed only one of the several injuries alleged by the claimant. The Appellate Panel declined to address injuries asserted in the claimant’s Form 50 (as to which the claimant sought mediation) because ...

Where defendant asserted immunity from a murder prosecution under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, the circuit court heard conflicting evidence, and the court found “that the defendant has not met [his] burden of proving to me by a ...

Where defendant intentionally brought a loaded, unlawfully possessed pistol to an illegal drug transaction, he committed a violation of the law that was reasonably calculated to produce violence. Therefore, defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense at ...