South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The court rules that plaintiff’s excessive force claim fails where the circumstances of the situation immediately prior to a police officer’s use of a taser against plaintiff would have led another reasonable law enforcement officer to deploy similar force to ...

The court rules that an employee’s disability discrimination claim failed where he could not demonstrate that he was a qualified individual under the ADA because he could not show his ability to perform the essential functions of his job or ...

The court rules that defendant employer was not entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff’s retaliation claim where the record demonstrated very close proximity between plaintiff employee’s protected activity and her supervisor’s alleged retaliation such that defendant’s legitimate, non-retaliatory reasons for ...

The court rules that, where the evidence demonstrates that a business’s employees could not have foreseen a third-party unlawfully opening fire in the business’s premises, plaintiffs could not establish proximate cause in support of their negligence claim. The court grants ...

On a matter of first impression, the court rules that, under S.C. Code Ann. § 62-1-110, the attorney-client privilege applies to communications between the defendant-trustees and their lawyer. The plaintiff-co-trustee is not entitled to discover those communications, even though they ...

Plaintiffs allege that defendants, who produce ready-mix concrete, engaged in secret communications, price fixing, and the dividing up of markets in South Carolina and Georgia. Plaintiffs’ allegations are sufficient to state a restraint-of-trade claim under § 1 of the Sherman ...

Plaintiffs allege that defendant Hynie has entered into an agreement which violates provisions of the Copyright Act, circumventing plaintiffs’ statutory interests while enhancing Hynie’s compensation. Plaintiffs’ allegations are sufficient to state a claim for a declaratory judgment. Defendants’ motion to ...

A mayor’s reference to a white police officer who shot an unarmed black man was not enough to support plaintiff’s claim of race discrimination arising out of his firing after it was revealed that—despite being warned not to—he was still ...

A police officer is not entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the officer—acting on a 911 caller’s tip regarding “suspicious” but not illegal behavior—arrested plaintiff. The court grants defendants’ motion for ...

The complaint alleges that (1) defendant licensed certain intellectual property from plaintiff in exchange for payment of a royalty to plaintiff, (2) defendant breached the parties’ contract by failing to make the required royalty payments, and (3) defendant’s breach has ...