South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In re Robertson (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-036-15, 3 pp.) (Per Curiam) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Before respondent was disbarred in 2009, he borrowed money from a client without complying with the safeguards outlined in Rule 1.8(a) of the Rules of ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Disbarment

Killian v. City of Abbeville (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-045-15, 9 pp.) (Timothy Cain, J.) 8:14-cv-01078; D.S.C. Holding: Where plaintiff’s civil conspiracy claim indicates that the individual defendants’ alleged misconduct resulted in his termination from at-will employment, his conspiracy claim must ...

Tagged with: At-will employment Civil Conspiracy

Mitchell v. City of Greenville (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-037-15, 3 pp.) (Per Curiam) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Even though an attachment that is mentioned in the respondent-city’s ordinance cites two methods for electing municipal officials, the body of the ordinance ...

Tagged with: Elections

Brown v. Goodman Manufacturing Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-044-15, 16 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:13-cv-03169; D.S.C. Holding: Within its limited warranty, defendants expressly warranted that their products were “free from defects in materials and workmanship that affect performance and ...

State v. Green (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-26-15, 18 pp.) (James Lockemy, J.) Appealed from Charleston County Circuit Court (Kristi Lea Harrington, J.) S.C. App. Holding: Even though defendant was a juvenile when he committed his first armed robbery, and even ...

Gray v. American HomePatient, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-040-15, 9 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-01207; D.S.C. Holding: The public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine does not extend to situations where the employee has an existing statutory remedy for wrongful ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Termination

Progressive Mountain Insurance Co. v. Dana C. McLendon Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-041-15, 7 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-04413; D.S.C. Holding: The 2011 amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b) allows removal to federal court of any civil action over which ...

Tagged with: Admiralty

Durant v. SAFE Federal Credit Union (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-042-15, 18 pp.) (Cameron McGowan Currie, S.J.) 3:13-cv-00626; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff has failed to show that her purported white comparator requested a transfer or (if she did) was then allowed to ...

Tagged with: Hostile Environment

Shack v. Beaufort County School District (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-043-15, 8 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 9:11-cv-03201; D.S.C. Holding: The defendant-school district’s given reason for transferring the plaintiff-assistant principal from a high school to an elementary school was so that she ...

In re Childers (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-005-15, 12 pp.) (Helen Burris, J.) 11-03985; B.S.C. Holding: Even though there is no equity in the debtors’ residence, since the trustee avoided a pre-petition mortgage while preserving the $97,821.27 lien for the benefit ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy