South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Although the plaintiff failed to list her potential tort claims on her bankruptcy schedule, that omission does not necessarily preclude the plaintiff from bringing those claims if the district court concludes on remand the omission was the result of a ...

Plaintiff Steven Newbern lost an eye because the airbag in plaintiffs’ Ford Focus deployed during an accident; the accident was similar to one in which Ford’s crash-test parameters said the airbag should not deploy. Plaintiffs attempt to rely on Ford’s ...

After a cursory investigation convinced defendants (plaintiff’s superiors) that plaintiff, a school security guard, had stolen $1,000 from a school for which he was supposed to provide security, defendants told others in the security department that plaintiff would be working ...

In answer to two questions certified by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the court says (1) South Carolina does not recognize a general rule that suicide is an intervening act that always breaks the chain of causation in a ...

Police officers allowed the assailant, whom they knew, to delay surrendering on an arrest warrant, after which the assailant stabbed his pregnant wife outside the courthouse where she had just obtained a protective order against him. The officers’ conduct, however, ...