A district court properly approved the settlement of a long-running class action lawsuit brought by life insurance policyholders, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, rejecting the objection by a single policyholder and laying down for the first ...
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An emergency medical services employee adequately alleged a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act under the theory of “overtime gap time,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing summary judgment for the employer. The district ...
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A joint tenancy with a right of survivorship was not severed by the signing of a purchase agreement, allowing one party to keep all the proceeds from a sale after the death of the other owner, a panel of the ...
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A pair of energy companies can be reimbursed for certain costs but not for environmental compliance costs associated with North Carolina law nor litigation costs incurred in defense against various lawsuits, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, affirming ...
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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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