South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The South Carolina Supreme Court is lifting the moratorium on judicial proceedings concerning evictions and foreclosures, and allowing all evictions currently ordered and scheduled statewide to resume on May 15. Chief Justice Donald Beatty signed an order April 30 to ...

In an issue of first impression, the court joined the Sixth Circuit in holding a private arbitral panel is a “tribunal” under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), which allows a district court to order testimony or documents for use in the ...

A convicted sex offender who was indicted for failing to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA, had his indictment reinstated because his non-delegation argument has been rejected by the Supreme Court and his ex post ...

Where a juror reported possible intimidation, including being photographed by family members or friends of the defendants, it was reversible error for the district court to not question the jurors directly and to only focus on whether there were photographs ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has suspended its mandatory mentoring program for new lawyers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mentoring program, created in 2016 with the addition of Rule 425 to the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, ...

Although two stores suffered property damage while law enforcement was executing search warrants, the damage did not rise to the level of a Fourth Amendment violation because it was not “major” and was plausibly connected to the execution of the ...

Defendant was convicted for four counts of first-degree assault and battery after he fired bullets into a home occupied by four people, including a child. The record does not reveal any indicators that would have alerted defendant to the child’s ...

Where the plaintiff-neighbor (1) paid the earnest money required by his contract to buy the defendant-seller’s property and (2) tendered the balance of the purchase price on the day scheduled for closing, the neighbor was entitled to specific performance of ...

A defendant sentenced for a conspiracy involving both crack and powder cocaine was nevertheless eligible for a sentence reduction consideration under the First Step Act because nothing in the statute says it does not apply if a covered offense is ...

Where a defendant pleads guilty to aiding-and-abetting the distribution of a controlled substance, the sentencing court may consider drugs possessed or consumed for “personal use.” In a case of first impression, the court held there is no personal use exception ...