South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The district court predicts that the South Carolina Supreme Court would (1) conclude that the plaintiff-telecommunications service provider is eligible to recover loss-of-use damages for the downtime it experienced when defendant severed plaintiff’s fiber-optic cable and (2) allow plaintiff to ...

We improvidently granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision (Defendant’s employers, the Gabys, tasked him with investigating the plaintiff-designer/home builder’s progress (or lack thereof) on the Gaby project, so defendant had a qualified privilege when ...

Where the fraternal order of Freemasons sued a splinter group that started their own chapter for unlawfully holding itself out as an extension of the original organization, the fraud, tortious interference and intellectual property claims were properly dismissed. Background This ...

Two opinion pieces in the defendant-publisher’s newspaper referred to statements made by a school superintendent at a press conference and otherwise relayed the author’s opinions that a high school football team’s post-game ritual was racist. The publisher is protected by ...

A guest at defendants’ amusement park tripped and fell on a raised cart pad along the pathway to a roller coaster. Plaintiff’s expert has concluded that defendants violated safety standards by “extending the cart pad with sloped edges into the ...

The court rules that, where the evidence demonstrates that a business’s employees could not have foreseen a third-party unlawfully opening fire in the business’s premises, plaintiffs could not establish proximate cause in support of their negligence claim. The court grants ...

Where plaintiff’s tort claim could result in substantial changes to a motor carrier’s transportation and delivery services, the state law claim was preempted under the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. We affirm the dismissal of plaintiffs’ claims as preempted by ...

Where a child placement agency did not exercise sufficient control over foster parents to be held vicariously liable for their alleged negligence, the mother of the child placed in home could not sue the agency for wrongful death. Background The ...

Where Sprint argued that Wireless Buybacks, by purchasing phones from Sprint’s customers for resale, tortiously interfered with contracts between Sprint and its customers, the contracts were found to be ambiguous on whether the practice was forbidden. Background Besides providing cellular ...

Where there were lapses in the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase his semiautomatic weapon, lawsuits seeking to hold the United States responsible will proceed. Background In the weeks following the tragic shooting ...