South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

When defendant HomeAway set up its generally accessible, semi-interactive website, it did not thereby direct electronic activity into South Carolina with the manifest intent of engaging in business or other interactions within this state in particular. The court grants defendant ...

Based on a “straightforward interpretation” of 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1), which governs citizenship of corporations, the credit union is a citizen of Virginia because that is its principal place of business. This analysis was not changed by the fact the ...

Although defendant Mahoney did not respond to defendant Davis Roofing Group’s requests to admit, the master-in-equity did not abuse his discretion when he declined to deem the requests admitted. Mahoney, who was proceeding pro se at the time, denied ever ...

Even though defendant failed to file an answer, since plaintiff filed her complaint pursuant to the Tort Claims Act, she is subject to the act’s statutory damages cap of $300,000. We reiterate our holding in Parker v. Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer ...

In support of its Rule 60, SCRCP, motion for a new trial based on juror misconduct, the defendant-city failed to present sufficient evidence that (1) the juror was in fact disqualified by his failure to mention a prior arrest, (2) ...

A party does not need to file a motion to compel before requesting a sanction for another party’s failure to answer a properly served discovery request. We reverse the trial court’s forfeiture order and remand to allow discovery to be ...

In response to a question certified to us by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, we answer, “The statute of limitations in S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530 does not apply to a claim for promissory estoppel.” ...

  Where a company has evaded paying damages stemming from its breach of a licensing agreement, an anti-clawback injunction preventing collected funds from being sent to the United Kingdom was within the court’s authority, respected comity and was procedurally sound. ...

  Where a juror failed to reveal her relationship with a defendant and his witnesses, and where she convinced at least one other juror to change her vote, the fundamental fairness of the trial was severely hampered, and the circumstances ...

  S.C. Code Ann. § 12-60-80(C) of the Revenue Procedures Act plainly states that the Department of Revenue “may not be named or made a defendant in any … class action brought in this State.” We reject the circuit court’s ...