South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  An esteemed criminal defense attorney once told Lawyers Weekly that some of the best work he’s done for clients has been on the front end of investigations, preventing arrests from happening in the first place. Joe Cheshire of Raleigh, ...

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  Evidence of a defendant’s attempted suicide is admissible as evidence of guilt, the state Supreme Court has ruled, but only under certain, very limited, circumstances. In 2011, the South Carolina Court of Appeals held in State v. Orozco that ...

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A racial epithet can satisfy the elements of a hostile work environment claim and is sufficient under the motion-to-dismiss standard, even if it’s allegedly used as a colloquial greeting, a federal judge has ruled. In Young v. Columbia Farms, Inc., ...

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    A Richland County jury has awarded $110,000 to the estate of an elderly woman who choked to death when an arsonist set her apartment building on fire in January 2017. True Henderson, 80, died a “horrible death” in ...

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A major pizza delivery corporation has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a negligent hiring case after one of its delivery drivers had a seizure and rear-ended a 70-year-old man, the plaintiff’s attorneys have reported. The corporation’s name and ...

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  A Barnwell couple’s insurance company will not have to pay for the damage caused after their mentally ill son intentionally set their house on fire, a federal judge has ruled. David and Kathy Taylor argued that the phrase “intent ...

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  Where the estate of a man killed in a trucking crash settled the case for $800,000, nearly half that amount—recovered from others involved in the incident—is to be set off against the full amount of the settlement rather than ...

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  A Richland County jury has awarded $50,000 to an Aiken County woman injured in a 2016 interstate crash–more than twice what the insurer offered, according to her attorneys. Janice Wright was traveling south on I-77 near Columbia in July ...

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  Recent changes in the military retirement system might call for legal professionals to familiarize themselves with the new standard operating procedures. One of those changes, perhaps the most significant to family law attorneys—especially those who practice in “military towns”—is ...

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A government contractor who developed a chronic pain condition after a slip and fall has agreed to settle his workers’ compensation case for more than $1 million, according to his attorney. Attorney Gary Christmas of Howell & Christmas Injury Lawyers ...

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