South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Collins v. Charleston Place, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-100-17, 13 pp.) (Patrick Michael Duffy, J.) 2:15-cv-04465; D.S.C. Holding: Although it does appear that the defendant-employer gave a pretextual reason for firing the white plaintiff – saying it was firing her ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

Collins v. Charleston Place, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-100-17, 13 pp.) (Patrick Michael Duffy, J.) 2:15-cv-04465; D.S.C. Holding: Although it does appear that the defendant-employer gave a pretextual reason for firing the white plaintiff – saying it was firing her ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

Hall v. Family YMCA of Greater August (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-099-17, 24 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:17-cv-00337; D.S.C. Holding: The complaint sufficiently alleges that the defendant-employer breached the parties’ employment contract when it fired her without following the procedures ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

Ra’Palo v. Lucas Designs Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-093-17, 7 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 9:17-cv-00710; D.S.C. Holding: Where plaintiffs have alleged that they were not paid overtime, despite working six days a week and “sometimes” working as much as 12 ...

Tagged with: FLSA

Harvey v. Saluda Smiles Family Dentistry (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-087-17, 12 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 8:14-cv-01966; D.S.C. Holding: Upon reconsideration, the court concludes that an investigation into plaintiff’s termination claim would have reasonably grown out of the South Carolina ...

Tagged with: Exhaustion

Kennedy v. McDonald (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-086-17, 8 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, S.J.) 3:15-cv-01844; D.S.C. Holding: The United States government’s waiver of sovereign immunity under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act does not compel the conclusion that the United States has ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice

LeBlanc v. Sunset Management, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-081-17, 14 pp.) (Shiva Hodges, USMJ) 3:16-cv-00577; D.S.C. Holding: Because the parties did not address whether the behavior of plaintiffs’ supervisor (placing his hand on plaintiffs’ thighs and running his hand up ...

Tagged with: Sexual Harassment

Odom v. Columbia Police Department (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-079-17, 9 pp.) (Mary Geiger Lewis, J.) 3:15-cv-04313; D.S.C. Holding: Since the law is unsettled as to whether a lateral transfer constitutes an adverse employment action, the question of whether plaintiff Odom’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

Solomon v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-150-17, 13 pp.) (Duncan, J.) No. 16-1730, June 23, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Garbis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In denying disability benefits to professional football player Jesse ...

Tagged with: brain injury NFL

  Chaplin v. SSA Cooper, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-165-17, 17 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:15-cv-01076; D.S.C. Holding: Although the plaintiff-stevedores have the authority to “knock off” a union worker (send him home for the day), the worker may be ...

Tagged with: executive exemption stevedore