South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the discovery procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, didn’t apply to Wikimedia’s suit against the National Security Agency, or NSA, alleging the agency is spying on Wikimedia’s communications through its Upstream surveillance program, the suit was ...

Where enrollees in the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, or NCSHP, alleged the plan violated the Affordable Care Act by categorically denying coverage for gender dysphoria treatments, NCSHP, which accepts federal funds, is not entitled ...

Although the Fairfax County School Board urged the entire Fourth Circuit to rehear an appeal involving its liability for student sexual misconduct, it failed to garner a majority of the judges in regular active service and not disqualified. Background A ...

Although plaintiff maintains that defendant knowingly and intentionally put a “Frankencar” on the road with no regard to the safety of others, plaintiff showed no history of defendant having committed similar acts in the past, defendant sold the car “as ...

Even though the trial court said it was entering “Default Judgment” against plaintiff “as to liability” on defendant’s counterclaims, the trial court also said it would schedule a damages hearing following discovery. A “default judgment as to liability” is no ...

Where the original complaint filed by a landowner alleging her house was damaged when a railroad diverted water asserted only state-law claims for negligence, nuisance and trespass, but her amended complaint included new claims for adverse possession and prescriptive easement ...

Neither party demanded a jury trial in their original pleadings. The trial court allowed defendant to amend its answer to assert counterclaims (for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of contract) because its original answer already included issues of fraud and ...

Where the North Carolina Attorney General is already representing the state’s interests in defending its voter-ID law and there was no evidence he lacked the “incentive” to robustly litigate on behalf of the law, the district court did not err ...

Petitioners allege that, in the process of approving a development project, the respondent-town and its Board of Architectural Review violated the Freedom of Information Act and town ordinances. At its core, the fight in this case is over whether the ...

Where Arlington County sued a host of opioid manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies in state court for causing, or contributing to, the opioid epidemic in the county, two subcontractors properly removed the suit to federal court. Their operation of a government ...