South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After the sale of a manufacturer’s assets in bankruptcy, the new owners continued the manufacturer’s business, even retaining the same CEO. Plaintiff was injured while using a machine built by the bankrupt manufacturer and sought to hold the new company ...

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The defendant-developers promised – at the outset of development and periodically throughout the time leading up to this lawsuit – to transfer certain amenities to the project’s homeowners’ association. However, the developers made consideration-less transfers of the amenities among several ...

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When the defendant-member joined the plaintiff-club, if defendant stopped paying dues, his expulsion was mandatory. According to defendant, the club changed its governing documents unilaterally – though a membership vote was required – such that, when a member stops paying ...

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The individual plaintiff and the plaintiff-limited liability company both allege harm arising out of the actions of defendants. The individual plaintiff and the plaintiff-LLC, which is suing derivatively, would both benefit from recovery. Since plaintiffs allege that they were injured ...

A string of emails evinces two limited liability company (LLC) members’ brazen freeze-out of the LLC’s third member. Although courts have the authority under the Limited Liability Company Act to order either the LLC or the oppressing member(s) to purchase ...

The appellant-club members allege that they sought to concede their golf club membership, as the respondent-club had allowed other members to do, but the club refused to allow appellants to concede their membership. The circuit court treated the determination of ...

  Plaintiff opened an access door to an elevator in her condominium building, stepped through the door, and fell down the elevator shaft because the elevator, which had been installed by defendant Colson Electric & Elevators, Inc., was not at ...

When a shareholder wishes to inspect and copy corporate records, statutes in both South Carolina and Georgia direct plaintiffs to apply to the state court in the county where the corporation has its corporate office, or is registered. Nevertheless, if ...

   The dismissal of a parole officer’s discrimination claims was upheld, because they were filed under the Rehabilitation Act, which is governed by the two-year statute of limitations in the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act rather than Maryland’s three-year statute ...

The plaintiff-country club’s membership documents – both at the time defendants joined and at the time they resigned – required resigning members to continue paying dues and other amounts until their membership was reissued. Since the Nonprofit Corporation Act also ...