Previously opened emails are considered to be in “electronic storage” and can, therefore, be the basis for claim under the federal Stored Communications Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a matter of first impression. The ...
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A Spartanburg-based fabric manufacturer has received a defense verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina after a judge upheld a jury’s verdict from over a year ago, the company’s ...
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A man and wife who suffered emotional damages when they were trapped in their overturned vehicle after crashing into a drunk driver have won a $795,000 jury verdict in Orangeburg County Circuit Court, the family’s attorney reports. All but ...
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Read More »The policy-making body of the federal judiciary has approved amendments which clarify what qualifies as judicial misconduct and makes it easier for victims to come forward and report judges’ misdeeds. The changes were approved by the Judicial Conference of the ...
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Read More »The University of South Carolina School of Law dropped three spots while Charleston School of Law remained unranked in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. While USC was ranked 88th in 2017 and 2018, this year ...
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A Conway woman’s voluntary manslaughter conviction has been overturned because there was no evidence that she shot her husband in a heat of passion, and thus no justification for the trial judge to instruct the jury on the charge ...
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Read More »A Clinton man whose blood alcohol level was well below the legal limit when a police officer charged him with drunk driving has confidentially settled his malicious prosecution and false imprisonment suit against the Mauldin Police Department for an ...
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Read More »When the leader of the South Carolina Secessionist Party announced in January that the group would be disbanding, he told news outlets that he was doing so because the group had taken a turn he didn’t like. But there ...
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Read More »Mandatory e-filing of court documents has expanded to all but one county in the state. Beginning March 26, Abbeville County courts will require attorneys to e-file all court documents in common pleas cases unless the type of filing is excluded ...
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Read More »South Carolina attorneys can get 7.5 hours of free CLE credit at two upcoming mental health “first aid” courses being offered in March and April. The courses will take place in Columbia on March 15 and Greenville on April 12. ...
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