South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where state and county law enforcement officers allegedly coerced a false confession out of two teenage boys with severe intellectual disabilities, the officers are not entitled to qualified immunity because they violated teenagers’ clearly established constitutional rights. Background This case ...

An officer who arrested a woman for obstruction when she attempted to shield her father-in-law’s dog from the officer who had pointed a gun, was not entitled to qualified immunity on the woman’s claims of false arrest, excessive force and ...

Officials who allegedly instructed police to not intervene during the “Unite the Right” rally are nevertheless entitled to immunity against claims brought by a person who was allegedly attacked by protestors. Background Robert Sanchez Turner was attacked by protesters at ...

Where a prisoner’s three separate civil rights actions against corrections employees were dismissed on the same day, the prisoner could appeal the dismissals in forma pauperis because a dismissal does not count as a “prior occasion” under the Prison Litigation Reform Act ...

Where (1) appellant’s request for the personal information of lottery winners led to petitioner South Carolina Lottery Commission being sued by one such winner; (2) after respondent provided him with general information about the lottery winners, appellant filed more requests ...

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 ...