South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  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 ...

The circuit court certified a plaintiff class of parents who adopted special-needs children and then had their subsidies reduced by the state. The certification order is not immediately appealable because (1) it is not certain that the children’s confidential adoptive ...

Even though the Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred by admitting three victims’ identification testimony, since the Court of Appeals held the error was harmless and affirmed defendant’s convictions, the state is not aggrieved by the decision ...

Although a Swiss corporation argued the missing party, a British Islands entity, was not indispensable to resolution of claims involving performance under fuel contracts, its own complaint confirmed the missing party was necessary and indispensable. Because joining the missing party ...

An officer who shot a privately owned dog during the course of assisting with an arrest warrant lost his bid for dismissal and qualified immunity. Although the court had not previously held that it is unreasonable for a police officer ...

Where corrections officials who were tipped off that an inmate with a history of attempting to smuggle contraband into prison might be planning to do it again stripped searched his visitor, the search was upheld because the officials, who witnessed ...

The circuit court certified a plaintiff class of parents who adopted special-needs children and then had their subsidies reduced by the state. The certification order is not immediately appealable because (1) it is not certain that the children’s confidential adoptive ...

Where a suit filed in federal court alleged the defendants engaged in fraudulent conduct in prosecuting defamation suits in state court, it was not an attack on the state-court judgments and, as such, was not barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. ...