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Home>Jeff Jeffrey

Jeff Jeffrey

Recent Articles from Jeff Jeffrey

Top Legal News June 3, 2017

Womble Carlyle and Bond Dickinson to tie the knot

Almost exactly one year after Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and U.K.-based Bond Dickinson announced they would be forming a strategic alliance, the two firms have decided to take things to the next level. The partners of Womble Carlyle and Bond Dickinson voted May 30 to combine their operations in a new entity that will […]

Top Legal News May 25, 2017

Unpublished opinion carries day for judge

Unpublished opinions typically go unnoticed. They carry no precedential value, so lawyers and judges tend to ignore them. But a federal judge in Anderson recently turned to an unpublished opinion to support his decision to deny the defendants’ request for summary judgment in a lawsuit stemming from an oil spill. In Lewis v. Kinder Morgan […]

Top Legal News May 17, 2017

Juveniles can be registered as sex offenders for life

Sentencing a juvenile to register as a sex offender and to wearing an electronic monitoring device for the rest of his life is not unconstitutional, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled earlier this month. The court’s unanimous May 3 decision in In re Justin B. held that goal of the state’s sex offender registry and […]

Top Legal News May 17, 2017

Not exactly mother of the year

Some mothers take Mother’s Day more seriously than others. Shontrell Murphy of Spartanburg is perhaps a little too into the holiday. Murphy was arrested on May 14 for allegedly hitting her son after he gave a Mother’s Day card to his grandmother but not to her. Spartanburg police said the boy’s sister witnessed the event […]

Top Legal News May 10, 2017

Foreclosure jury demand trumps rule on referrals

The South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a Richland County clerk of court overstepped his authority when he approved a request to send a foreclosure case to a master, despite the defendant’s demand for a jury trial. In an April 26 opinion in South Carolina Community Bank v. Salon Proz, the appeals court determined […]

Top Legal News May 3, 2017

Defendants not part of suit not part of fault-finding

The South Carolina Supreme Court has used two cases on the the state’s Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors to underscore a basic legal principle: If someone is not a defendant in a lawsuit, they cannot have any fault attributed to them under the statute. The 2005 statute modified joint and several liability in tort cases with […]

Top Legal News April 26, 2017

Broad contract gave UPS store power to accept service

The broad language of a contract to rent a UPS box has allowed the owner of a liquor company to be served with a lawsuit, despite the complaint being served to the wrong box. A Charleston federal judge found March 23 that UPS’s acceptance-of-service contract grants the authority to accept legal documents to the store […]

Top Legal News April 26, 2017

Dram shop case results in $1.05M settlement

An Easley restaurant agreed to pay a commercial truck driver $800,000 to settle claims it overserved alcohol to one of its customers, who ended up crashing her car into his tractor-trailer after she left the restaurant. Under the terms of the settlement, the restaurant’s name was withheld. But court records say Karen Best was leaving […]

Top Legal News April 19, 2017

Booze ban unconstitutional

It took a ruling from the state Supreme Court to make it happen, but Aiken is set to get a Total Wine & More store. See, the problem was that South Carolina law prohibits any holder of a liquor license from opening more than three retail outlets in the state. Total Wine already had three […]

Top Legal News April 19, 2017

Greenville man settles forklift crash for $700K

A Georgia-based workplace staffing company has agreed to pay one of its employees $700,000 after he suffered a head injury during a forklift accident. Dexter Masters, 26, was operating a forklift at a BMW dealership in Greenville in 2015when another forklift driver crashed into him. The wreck caused one of the forklifts to strike Masters’ […]

Top Legal News April 12, 2017

Lazy river fall results in $775,000 settlement

A woman who broke her ankle after entering a lazy river at a Myrtle Beach resort is set to receive $775,000 in compensation for her injuries. According to court records, Patricia Holland was staying at the Dunes Village Resort in Myrtle Beach when she decided to enter the resort’s indoor lazy river. As she descended […]

Top Legal News April 6, 2017

Result of alleged hazing ‘unintended,’ so insurer had duty to defend claim

Allstate Insurance Co. had a duty to defend a swimmer from the University of Virginia in a lawsuit claiming he and four of his teammates forced a first-year swimmer to drink milk and prune juice until he vomited, a South Carolina federal judge ruled last month. Judge Bruce Hendricks’ March 14 ruling in Allstate Insurance […]

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