South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a former student sued a Virginia State University administrator for alleged due process violations in connection with a student discipline proceeding, the administrator was entitled to qualified immunity because there was no clearly established right to continued enrollment in ...

Where the South Carolina Lottery Commission denied a request for information, which would identify certain lottery winners, on the basis that the release of information would put the lottery winners in danger, there is a question of fact as to ...

Where decisions from the Supreme Court and this court hold that inmates are entitled to some level of procedural protection, but none of those cases definitively require prior notice of administrative segregation hearings, a prison official sued for not providing ...

Where a 911 caller requested medical care for the decedent because of his consumption of alcohol and prescription drugs, and the officers knew the man was substantially inhibited in his ability to talk, walk or sit and they witnessed his ...

Where a Stafford County deputy initially offered to assist the plaintiff with his disabled vehicle, but then demanded the plaintiff produce identification, that demand converted the voluntary encounter into an investigatory stop for which the officer lacked reasonable suspicion of ...

A jury will decide if a prison official’s decision to pepper spray an inmate after he head-butted an officer and was lying on his back in handcuffs was “clearly necessary” to respond to a threat to officer safety or to ...

Even though the defendant-county’s failure to maintain its emails violated the Public Records Act, there is no private right to enforce the PRA. Furthermore, a public body’s failure to retain public records is not a violation of the Freedom of ...

Where a man voluntarily left a restaurant with a police officer to be patted down outside, the officer did not brandish a weapon, use restraint, accuse him of wrongdoing or make a show of authority, and thus the man failed ...

A 2005 preliminary injunction required the City of Myrtle Beach to use the same traffic patterns for both Harley Week and Black Bike Week. In this subsequent litigation, that preliminary injunction is relevant, but its probative value is outweighed by ...

Where the inmate plausibly suggested he was placed in administrative segregation for impermissible reasons the day after he accused a correction officer of sexual assault and argued his segregation was arbitrary, it was improper to grant summary judgment to the ...