South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Owners of Charleston real estate failed to pay either their county property taxes or their federal income taxes. When the county held its tax sale, it failed to notify the federal government; accordingly, appellant – the purchaser at the tax ...

Tagged with: Real Property

We agree with our Court of Appeals that Opternative, Inc., has constitutional standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Eye Care Consumer Protection Law. However, in the context of constitutional standing, any discussion of the three elements of constitutional standing ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice

It appears that plaintiff called himself married when it was convenient and financially beneficial for him but considered himself single when marriage was inconvenient or financially detrimental. Moreover, the evidence shows defendant did not consider herself married to plaintiff. The ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations

Even though the defendant-tenant’s 17-year-old son was a mile from their apartment when he committed an armed robbery, the plaintiff-housing authority could still find that the son’s activities posed a threat to the health, safety or right to peaceful enjoyment ...

Tagged with: landlord/tenant

After appellant was removed as personal representative of the James Brown estate, respondents sued her for several torts based on, among other things, (1) appellant’s request for millions of dollars for services provided in a short amount of time and ...

Tagged with: Trusts & Estates

During the underlying proceedings between the project owner and the general contractor, the owner settled a claim by electrical subcontractor Carolina Construction Solutions (CCS) for $50,000. CCS was only hired after the project owner became frustrated by construction delays, demanded ...

Tagged with: Contract

Although defendant argues that his guilty plea is invalid because the government breached the plea agreement by relying on the conduct underlying dismissed charges when arguing for an appropriate sentence, the plain language of the plea agreement does not limit ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice

We improvidently granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision (Although defendant argues his victim – 12 years old at the time of trial – was too old to qualify as “very young” under ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice

In the parties’ commercial property insurance policy, coverage for a business interruption loss is triggered by “direct physical loss or damage.” The policy does not define this phrase, so we give the words of the phrase their ordinary meanings and ...

Tagged with: Insurance

A juror’s attenuated connection to the victim – the juror’s ex-wife, from whom he had been divorced for 11 years, was related to the ex-husband of the mother of the victim – was insufficient to warrant a posttrial hearing.  We ...

Tagged with: Criminal Practice