South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A therapist’s testimony addressing the various manifestations of child sexual abuse, followed immediately by her affirmative response that she had treated the victim, implied that she believed the victim was telling the truth with respect to her allegations of sexual ...

Because the petitioner-customer did not file a request for a contested case hearing when respondent South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) initially issued permits to the respondent-town for its water system – waiting instead until the town ...

Because the petitioner-customer did not file a request for a contested case hearing when respondent South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) initially issued permits to the respondent-town for its water system—waiting instead until the town had invested ...

Although a property owners’ association had purported to return a drainage easement to the owners of the servient tract (subsequently bought by defendants), the trial court granted summary judgment for the POA on defendant’s third-party claims because defendants could not ...

Plaintiff Steven Newbern lost an eye because the airbag in plaintiffs’ Ford Focus deployed during an accident; the accident was similar to one in which Ford’s crash-test parameters said the airbag should not deploy. Plaintiffs attempt to rely on Ford’s ...

Even though plaintiff’s complaint alleged that defendants Carolina Insurance Group of SC, Inc. (CIG) and Maurice Derrick were agents of former defendant Scottsdale Insurance Co., since CIG and Derrick denied that allegation, under South Carolina law, plaintiff’s allegation is not ...

Even though some of the appellant/respondent-husband’s tax debt was properly classified as a marital debt, since the penalties and fees he owed were incurred due to his own negligence in not filing his tax returns on time and not for ...

Where there was no evidence of an antecedent agreement to fight or pre-existing ill will between defendant and the victim, and where there was no evidence that the victim had reason to believe defendant was armed with a deadly weapon ...

Where neither the plat referenced in plaintiff’s predecessor’s deed nor the description in the deed itself precisely located the land claimed by plaintiff, and where the claimed waterfront land falls within the public trust, the master-in-equity did not abuse his ...

Once the family court entered a final equitable distribution order—without reserving continuing jurisdiction—and in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, the family court did not have jurisdiction to make substantive modifications to the equitable distribution of the marital estate. We reverse ...