South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Lacking evidence that a juror who checked her Twitter account during a week-long criminal trial actually read any tweets related to the trial, 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of a former West Virginia Supreme Court ...

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BY CORREY E. STEPHENSON BridgeTower Media Newswires The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a South Carolina judge’s ruling that found no conflict of interest with either an insurer’s reservation of rights letter to an insured or the ...

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  The neighbors of a North Carolina hog farm have reportedly reached a deal with the company that owns the farm after the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict holding the owners liable for compensatory and punitive ...

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  A South Carolina college’s faculty manual created an employment contract with the tenured English professor that it later fired, despite disclaimers on nearly every page saying that the manual wasn’t a contract, a narrowly divided South Carolina Supreme Court ...

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  Verifying the constitutionality of the state’s Fair Housing Law, the South Carolina Supreme Court also weighed in on the admissibility of materials related to conciliation efforts between the South Carolina Fair Housing Commission and parties being investigated, as well ...

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  A family court judge properly ordered a father to pay roughly $250,000 in fees and costs to his ex-wife’s attorneys and their children’s guardian ad litem in a modification action, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming ...

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  The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down the city of Charleston’s tour guide licensing ordinance, finding that while the city has a significant interest in protecting the tourism industry, the ordinance was an unconstitutional restriction of tour ...

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  Weighing in on the long-running dispute over the estate of James Brown, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a woman claiming to have been validly married to the Godfather of Soul wasn’t his surviving spouse entitled to a ...

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  A U.S. district judge in South Carolina has granted a federal inmate’s motion for a reduced sentence in light of the presence of COVID-19 at his North Carolina prison facility. The order is reportedly the first in the state, ...

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  Returning to the standard of “logical relevancy” or “logical connection” for admitting evidence of a criminal defendant’s “common scheme or plan,” a divided South Carolina Supreme Court overruled precedent and reversed a Greenville County man’s convictions for criminal sexual ...

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