South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although the denial of an application to compel arbitration is appealable under S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-200, given the procedural posture of this case – appeal after denial of defendants’ motion to set aside default – we find no appealable ...

  Since plaintiff’s claims arise out of an unincorporated association’s alleged use of photographs of a Charleston baseball stadium, the court has specific jurisdiction over the unincorporated association, which has as a “core business” the ownership of a Minor League ...

Even though African-Americans appear to be disparately impacted by a traffic loop that is put in place for Myrtle Beach’s Atlantic Beach Bikefest (Black Bike Week), plaintiffs have not shown that defendants’ use of the traffic loop is the result ...

Reporter’s complaint against individual agents of the Department of Justice and the United States Postal Service who allegedly engaged in illegal surveillance activities against her and her family were dismissed because the individual agents had still not been identified more ...

A plaintiff was entitled to collect on a contempt award against a national business franchise by garnishing two bank accounts in the franchise’s name because the current owner of the franchise failed to establish that it had actually loaned money ...

  A plaintiff was entitled to collect on a contempt award against a national business franchise by garnishing two bank accounts in the franchise’s name because the current owner of the franchise failed to establish that it had actually loaned ...

Although a district court made errors in certifying a defendant class, including failing to timely appoint class counsel or ensuring the requirements of Federal Rule 23 were satisfied, the objecting parties’ failure to timely object to these defects and the ...

Where plaintiffs challenging Mississippi’s death penalty practices subpoenaed the Virginia Department of Corrections in the hopes of gathering information that would help them prove deficiencies in Mississippi’s practices, the subpoena was quashed because the department had already produced relevant information ...

The plaintiff in this slip-and-fall case knew the defendant-hospital was a charitable entity (and in fact so alleged in his complaint); moreover, the parties’ attorneys repeatedly discussed the $300,000 cap set out in the Charitable Funds Act. Even though the ...

Where a contraceptive device, regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, failed to work as intended, forcing the plaintiff to undergo a total hysterectomy to have it removed, the manufacturer of the device could not remove the action to federal ...