South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

When a municipal court judge intervened in two traffic-ticket cases—marking a friend’s ticket “Not Guilty” prior to the scheduled hearing and asking a police officer to dismiss a case involving the judge’s brother-in-law—the judge violated several provisions of the Code ...

When the Administrative Law Court remands a contested case to an agency, the better practice is to allow the remand to conclude before appealing. However, where, as here, the ALC rules upon the dispositive issues, grants the claimant the very ...

Where an inmate arranged to have his ex-wife killed by having friends mail her a bomb, but the scheme was discovered and the bomb was intentionally inert, the conviction was upheld because the definition of “explosive” included the inert bomb. ...

Where the government conceded that a 2019 Supreme Court decision finding that the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)’s crime-of-violence definition was unconstitutionally vague and applied retroactively to cases on collateral review, a defendant who demonstrated his crime-of-violence claim ...

Where a company that provided mezzanine financing made poor investment choices in 2014 and 2015, plaintiffs failed to show its contemporaneous statements were made with the required scienter and their securities fraud class action was dismissed. Background LifeWise Family Financial ...

Where the plaintiff offered photos, video evidence, and fact and expert witness testimony raising a disputed issue over whether loose bricks and sagging caulk in a town center were a dangerous condition, that the owner of the property should have ...

Where an individual convicted in 1993 for misdemeanor assault and battery of a family member has demonstrated good behavior during the following 27 years, the prohibition in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) from possessing a firearm continues to apply because Congress ...

Where the owner of a blood testing laboratory and two lead salespersons were repeatedly warned that paying commissions to independent contractors might violate an anti-kickback statute, but they went ahead and paid physicians for drawing patients’ blood and processing the ...

The state’s expert in forensic psychology admitted that there was debate within the psychological profession as to whether his diagnosis of “Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder – Biastophilia/Non-Consent” (i.e., when a person is sexually aroused by the aspect of having nonconsensual ...

In several personal injury matters and an adoption matter, the respondent-attorney failed to diligently or competently pursue his clients’ (and a subrogation vendor’s) interests and failed to communicate with his clients. Given respondent’s misconduct, we suspend him from the practice ...