The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has revived a worker’s claim of same-sex sexual harassment, joining its sister circuits in holding that such plaintiffs aren’t limited to three distinct evidentiary options to make their claims. Chazz Roberts was hired as ...
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Overruling decades of precedent, the South Carolina Supreme Court has abolished the requirement of pleading special damages as an element of a civil conspiracy claim, finding that it resulted from a “misinterpretation of law.” Leisel Paradis, a former teacher ...
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The death of a motel housekeeper who was required to live at the motel and was murdered in an armed robbery was compensable under South Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Act because her murder arose from her employment there, the state’s ...
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Neither of the two powers of attorney granted to the daughter of a nursing home resident conferred the authority to sign an arbitration agreement on her father’s behalf, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, reversing a decision by ...
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A judge correctly read an ambiguous contract to find that a juice maker had been squeezed by one of its buyers for millions of dollars in rebates that the buyer wasn’t entitled to, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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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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