South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In this case involving a victim’s delayed disclosure about sexual abuse by her mother’s boyfriend, when the trial court decided to exclude a defense expert’s testimony about false memories, the court made the determinations required by Rule 702, SCRE, including ...

In a case involving property ownership in the aftermath of many parishes’ secession from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (National Church), we interpret the five separate opinions entered in this court’s 2017 ruling on this case ...

In a case involving property ownership in the aftermath of many parishes’ secession from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (National Church), we interpret the five separate opinions entered in this court’s 2017 ruling on this case ...

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Thanks to Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018), we now know that the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement applies to cell-site location information (CSLI).  Although T-Mobile stored its CSLI records in New Jersey, since T-Mobile clearly does business ...

Because the covered “occurrence” had already happened when an insured assigned its rights under its expired commercial liability policies to its successor in interest, pursuant to the post-loss exception, now adopted by this court, the insurers’ consent was not required ...

Respondent engaged in an argument with his wife, which escalated to the point that it was reasonable for his wife to fear imminent harm. Respondent was charged with felony first-degree domestic violence but entered a plea of no contest to ...

After having provided certain political candidates the maximum political campaign contributions allowed, respondent personally funded another $184,000 in contributions through 14 limited liability companies, thereby violating S.C. Code Ann. § 8-13-1314, Rule 8.4(a), RPC (prohibiting misconduct) and 8.4(d) (prohibiting conduct ...

The respondent-attorney, who had been drinking, physically assaulted his girlfriend and was charged with third-degree assault and battery. He self-reported the charge, attended a 45-day inpatient treatment program, continued with outpatient treatment, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and has had his ...

Where the immigration judge or IJ, found that the threat of torture from MS-13, police and vigilante groups in El Salvador was less than 50%, both separately and in the aggregate, an applicant’s bid for protection under the Convention Against ...

Where the Supreme Court previously addressed the proper standard for holding a creditor in civil contempt for attempting to collect a debt that a Chapter 7 discharge order has immunized from collection, that rule also applied in a Chapter 11 ...