South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

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Unpublished opinions typically go unnoticed.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 But a federal judge in Anderson recently turned to an unpublished opinion to support his decision to deny the defendants’ request for ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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