South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although plaintiff was entitled to immediately appeal an intermediate order finding a common-law marriage between the parties pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-330(1), she was not required to immediately appeal the order or to specifically list the order in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations

The defendant-law firm may not immediately appeal a discovery sanctions order, either the monetary sanction portion or the portion ordering that the parties reconvene the depositions of a firm employee and a former firm employee (deponents) and that deponents answer ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice

Over the course of 13 hours, defendant drove the Victim – his ex-girlfriend – from Marion County into Dillon and Marlboro Counties and back to Marion County. Defendant beat and stabbed Victim in Dillon County and then tried to snap ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice

Reverse spot zoning – a novel concept in South Carolina – occurs when a zoning ordinance restricts the use of a property when virtually all the property’s adjoining neighbors are not subject to the use restriction. In order to promote ...

Tagged with: Zoning

When sentencing defendant for possession of a firearm by a felon, the district court applied an enhancement based on defendant’s prior South Carolina cocaine distribution convictions under S.C. Code Ann. § 44-53-375(B). Because the word “deliver” in § 44-53-375(B) includes ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice

After the plaintiff-longshoreman had an altercation with one of the “headers” who hire workers day by day, she contends the headers retaliated against her by refusing to hire her. While plaintiff was not hired on several days, she was hired ...

Tagged with: Labor and Employment

After the sale of a manufacturer’s assets in bankruptcy, the new owners continued the manufacturer’s business, even retaining the same CEO. Plaintiff was injured while using a machine built by the bankrupt manufacturer and sought to hold the new company ...

Tagged with: Corporate

During the course of this litigation, plaintiffs – whose nonimmigrant visas had been revoked by defendant – received new visas of the same type. Consequently, plaintiffs’ claims are moot. We affirm summary judgment for defendant. Also during the course of ...

Tagged with: Immigration

In this litigation arising out of a subcontractor’s (defendant IES Commercial Inc.) alleged failure to pay for the work of a sub-subcontractor (plaintiff Greenwood Inc.), the dispute resolution clause in the contract between the parties, which was drafted by IES ...

Tagged with: Arbitration

At sentencing, the district court ordered defendant to “comply with the mandatory and standard conditions of supervision outlined at [18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)].” Although § 3585(d) does not list standard conditions, since there were no other standard conditions of supervision ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice