South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The complaint alleges that (1) defendant licensed certain intellectual property from plaintiff in exchange for payment of a royalty to plaintiff, (2) defendant breached the parties’ contract by failing to make the required royalty payments, and (3) defendant’s breach has ...

Although summary judgment was granted to two companies hired to provide “quality assurance” and “quality control” services on a bridge construction project, there are disputed issues of material fact over the contract terms. Now a jury will decide whether the companies ...

Even though plaintiff’s complaint alleged that defendants Carolina Insurance Group of SC, Inc. (CIG) and Maurice Derrick were agents of former defendant Scottsdale Insurance Co., since CIG and Derrick denied that allegation, under South Carolina law, plaintiff’s allegation is not ...

While S.C. Code Ann. § 36-9-611(b) requires a secured party to send the debtor notification when it plans to dispose of collateral, the secured party is also permitted to send a revised notification up until a reasonable time before disposition, ...

When defendant sold plaintiff his company’s assets, he warranted that the assets were free of encumbrances. Defendant was in breach of the contract because, before the date of the contract, he caused checks to his vendors to be retracted, resulting ...

When the defendant-debtor applied for $70,000 worth of credit from plaintiff in Florida, the defendant-guarantor signed a guaranty making him liable for “any and all indebtedness of any kind whatsoever, whether now due or which may hereafter become due.” Pursuant ...

There is no evidence or argument (1) that these parties signed a written document purporting to be a contract or (2) regarding the existence of specific agreed-upon oral and/or course of dealing provisions demonstrating obligations that were capable of being ...

In a dispute between a commercial tenant and its landlord, the district court erred in denying damages to the landlord. The commercial tenant is responsible for damages resulting from its early termination of the lease, but those damages will be ...

Where a contract required that the plaintiff spud wells on defendant’s property but did not define the term “spud,” the contract was interpreted as requiring only the drilling of the wells, not their production, consistent with the plain meaning of ...

Plaintiff alleges that (1) she blew the whistle on defendants’ scheme to defraud Medicare and Tricare, (2) defendants settled plaintiff’s (and the U.S. government’s) claim under the False Claims Act without intending to carry out the terms of the settlement, ...