South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the servicemembers were likely to show the government’s policy and conduct violated the Administrative Procedure Act and that they would suffer irreparable harm without a preliminary injunction while they challenged their discharge and that injunctive relief was in the ...

Where the plaintiff, who is blind, is not a current or former member of the Department of Labor and could never have become eligible to join the Department of Labor Federal Credit Union, he lacked standing to challenge the Credit ...

Plaintiff’s claims of malicious prosecution and defamation are separate causes of action with distinct elements; moreover, even if the same allegedly false claims by defendants India and Dallas Kozel created the factual predicate for both causes of actions, there are ...

Where a class action lawsuit resulted in the dismissal of 10 out of 64 plaintiffs and settled for a total damages award of only 3% the initial amount sought, an award of attorneys’ fees that was almost double the amount ...

Where a Hungarian businessman sold a company to another Hungarian company, violating an injunction, the Hungarian company’s participation in the businessman’s injunction violation was insufficient to provide the court a basis for exercising personal jurisdiction over it. Background In the ...

A company president is not personally responsible for a multi-million dollar judgment because he was never personally named in the complaint. However, the president might be liable for sanctions because of his conduct during the discovery. Background In December 2010, ...

Rule 59(b), SCRCP, says a new-trial motion “shall be made promptly after the jury is discharged.” Nevertheless, plaintiff’s new-trial motion was timely when it was made after the verdict was published but while the jury was still in the jury ...

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 ...