South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

U.S. v. Westbrooks (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-050-15, 10 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 13-4764, March 13, 2015; USDC at Charlotte, N.C. (Conrad, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit affirms a defendant’s criminal contempt conviction for failure to comply with a ...

Tagged with: grand jury

Jacobs v. N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-051-15, 46 pp.) (Floyd, J.) No. 13-2212, March 12, 2015; USDC at Wilmington, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A deputy clerk in a North Carolina state courthouse who ...

Tagged with: ADA

Moses v. CashCall Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-045-15, 77 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 14-1195, March 16, 2015; USDC at Greenville, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In this bankruptcy appeal involving debtor’s assertion of a claim for declaratory relief and ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy

McCleary-Evans v. Md. Dep’t of Transportation (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-052-15, 27 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 13-2488, March 13, 2015; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Blake, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: An African-American female with over 20 years’ experience as a project manager ...

Tagged with: Public Employees

Kennedy Funding, Inc. v. Pawleys Island North, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-029-15, 9 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Georgetown County (Joe Crosby, Master-in-Equity) S.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Although the defendant-borrowers fraudulently transferred a Pawleys Island lot from defendant Will Wheeler ...

Tagged with: Lien Priority Statute of Elizabeth

Beason v. Lowden (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-028-15, 5 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Orangeburg County Circuit Court (Edgar Dickson, J.) S.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the trial court’s order granting plaintiff’s motion for a new trial nisi additur noted uncontradicted ...

South Carolina  Department of Social Services v. Epting (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-027-15, 5 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Greenville County Family Court (Robert Jenkins Sr., J.) S.C. App. Unpub. Editor’s Note: This case appears on www.sccourts.org’s opinion list as SCDSS ...

Menton v. Nestle Prepared Foods Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-048-15, 13 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 7:14-cv-02542; D.S.C. Holding: Although plaintiff’s EEOC charge failed to use the words “promotion” or “higher-paying,” a reasonable investigation of the allegations in her charge ...

Davidson v. Robertson (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-047-15, 5 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:13-cv-01972; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration fails because she has presented no evidence of a grantee for the grantors’ supposed grant of an easement over her neighbor’s ...

Tagged with: Easements

Crane v. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-046-15, 14 pp.) (Patrick Michael Duffy, J.) 4:14-cv-01651; D.S.C. Holding: Even though plaintiff filed an “Intake Questionnaire” with the EEOC, since she never filed a perfected, verified “Charge of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Remedies