South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although plaintiff argues that no statute of limitations should apply because its “lawsuit is primarily equitable in nature,” since plaintiff requests both a trial by jury and monetary damages, both legal and equitable claims coexist in plaintiff’s complaint. When legal ...

State court class actions on behalf of owners of stock in an electric and gas utility, which alleged that the company’s CEO and board members breached their fiduciary duties by agreeing to a merger with an energy-based utility company and ...

A district court that found a police officer entitled to qualified immunity erred by failing to construe evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, who was shot by the officer. A majority of the court held the facts ...

Although the parties are engaged in separate litigation in which discovery is available, plaintiff filed a request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. We decline to impose a blanket prohibition on FOIA disclosure whenever the person seeking public ...

Senior government officials, including the former Attorney General and the Postmaster General, cannot be held liable for claims they unlawfully relied on electronic surveillance to spy on a CBS television reporter because such conduct did not violate a clearly established ...

The court held that a jury should determine if tasing of the defendant constituted excessive force. The court additionally held the plaintiff established good cause to extend the deadline to serve one defendant and that he was entitled to use-of-force ...

Plaintiffs could not bring a claim for damages against ICE agents who allegedly violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights because recognizing a Bivens remedy in this context was unwarranted given Congress’s refusal to provide such a remedy in any ...

Although a prisoner wanted to engage in “communal” feasts as part of his celebration of annual Rastafarian holy days, he provided no direct evidence to show that other inmates would join his gatherings, and thus he could not show prison ...

A parent who claimed she was improperly arrested and prosecuted for protesting the dismissal of her son from school can proceed with her civil rights claims in federal court. Because the claims sought damages against defendants, and were not an ...

A county board of elections that was tasked with enforcing a law enacted by the state was required to pay the attorneys’ fees of the plaintiffs who prevailed in an action to enjoin the enforcement of the law on the ...