South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

For the third time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will attempt to determine whether construction of the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline will threaten four endangered species after the conclusions in FWS’s prior opinion were found arbitrary and capricious. ...

Northrop Grumman successfully argued that an employee’s complaint was not within the scope of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, and she therefore could not claim whistleblower protection under the Act. An ALJ’s order in favor of the employee was vacated. ...

S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-1230 requires immediate entry into the Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect of the name of a person administratively determined to have harmed or threatened to harm a child. The statute is thus intended to ...

  The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy established in 2012 was arbitrary and capricious because the memo explaining that decision did not identify any basis for the department’s view that the ...

  Where a decision to revoke a school’s accreditation after the school failed to meet graduation rate requirements relied on a recommendationmade by a team that included the president of a competing school, the level of competition between the schools was ...

Where the state reduced certain services available to plaintiffs under its Medicaid waiver program, the plaintiffs could not sue the federal government for its failure to provide proper oversight of the state’s Medicaid program. Background Richard Stogsdill and Robert Levin ...

  The Environmental Protection Agency was not required to accept a standard proposed by a wastewater treatment plant that utilized an older methodology previously used by the EPA. Moreover, the EPA’s decision to examine the standard using the most innovative ...

After an accident, and while appellant was being treated at a hospital, a nurse told the investigating officer that appellant was unable to provide a breath sample. The officer was properly allowed to testify about the nurse’s statements because those ...

 The Sierra Club and other environmental groups failed to persuade the court that Virginia erred in issuing permits required for the construction of the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline. Background The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a proposed interstate natural gas ...

A law making financial and structural changes to multiple state agencies satisfies the One Subject Rule where all the changes relate to the same general subject of state transportation infrastructure improvement. We affirm the dismissal on the merits of plaintiffs’ ...