South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

At the time respondent contracted marriage with the now-deceased James Brown in 2001, she had not resolved her first marriage (to Javed Ahmed); therefore, her marriage to Brown was void ab initio, and there was nothing to be “revived” by ...

The plaintiff-lender accepted a mortgage and later foreclosed on and bought property that was subject to Horry County’s Official Map Ordinance, which prohibited improvement to the land without prior exemption. This ordinance constituted an encumbrance on the property, triggering coverage ...

In this defective construction action, an affidavit from the defendant-general contractor’s controller says the construction involved interstate commerce such as the use of out-of-state contractors and materials and equipment manufactured outside South Carolina. Since the transaction here involved interstate commerce, ...

Given the interconnected nature of defendant’s sexual abuse of his minor stepdaughter and his provision of alcohol and drugs to her and her brothers, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s motion to sever the charges ...

In this burglary case, the court needs further factual development to determine whether the statutorily undefined term “appurtenant” applies to an outbuilding which the victim may have used for business purposes. We reverse the Court of Appeals’ decision, which upheld ...

A reasonable jury could find a black homeless man who had been stopped for walking alongside, instead of on, the sidewalk, and who was shot 22 times by West Virginia police officers had been secured, or at a minimum was ...

Where a salesperson alleged IBM defrauded him by “capping” his sales commissions despite allegedly representing they would not be capped, his claims for fraud, unjust enrichment or quantum meruit were not foreclosed by disclaimer language in which IBM reserved its right to ...

The case of first impression held that despite a bankruptcy code section providing that exempt property cannot be used to satisfy a debtor’s prepetition debts, the tax code makes clear the government’s right to set-off a tax overpayment against a ...

Although AutoZone remained liable for compensatory damages awarded to a former employee because of sexual harassment by a co-worker, the punitive damages award was vacated because there was insufficient evidence his managers engaged in intentionally discriminatory practices themselves with malice ...

A string of emails evinces two limited liability company (LLC) members’ brazen freeze-out of the LLC’s third member. Although courts have the authority under the Limited Liability Company Act to order either the LLC or the oppressing member(s) to purchase ...