South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A lease was not modified by a subsequent letter or estoppel certificate because neither document was signed by all parties and thus lacked mutual assent. Nor could subsequent conduct vary the unambiguous lease. Although the lease allowed the landlords to ...

The parties’ sublease agreement required the defendant-sublessor to return the plaintiff-sublessee’s deposit if plaintiff were unable to obtain the zoning changes and permits needed for plaintiff to install its business on the leased premises. Despite extending the agreement several times, ...

As part of her realty business, defendant self-financed mortgages for some of her customers, including the Wagners. When the Wagners could not make the balloon payment required by defendant’s loan to them, plaintiff lent the Wagners the $210,000 balance, which ...

As part of her realty business, defendant self-financed mortgages for some of her customers, including the Wagners. When the Wagners could not make the balloon payment required by defendant’s loan to them, plaintiff lent the Wagners the $210,000 balance, which ...

Where a multiyear software subscription contract was subject to an “appropriations” clause, and the record showed North Carolina’s Johnston County Board of Education decided not to appropriate money to the contract after the first year, the school board prevailed on ...

The refusal to enforce an Iraqi judgment because of concerns about the availability of discovery and motions in the Iraqi legal system was based on flawed analysis. The question to be considered is whether the defendant defaulted his right to ...

Plaintiff alleges that (1) the defendant-hospital billed her directly in breach of the contract between the hospital and plaintiff’s healthcare insurer and (2) the hospital billed her for more than the rates negotiated between the hospital and the insurer. Despite ...

Plaintiff alleges that (1) the defendant-hospital billed her directly in breach of the contract between the hospital and plaintiff’s healthcare insurer and (2) the hospital billed her for more than the rates negotiated between the hospital and the insurer. Despite ...

The “services to be rendered” pursuant to a hospital admission contract cannot reasonably be read to include the hospital monitoring its physicians’ compliance with the hospital bylaws’ malpractice insurance requirements. Instead, the phrase, “services to be rendered” meant the tangible ...

Where an agreement barred claims brought by a subcontractor for damages arising out of the construction of an FBI facility in West Virginia, and the subcontractor waived other arguments by not raising them in district court, the contractor prevailed. Background ...