South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Local commuters call it “Malfunction Junction”: a spaghetti-style network of roads, ramps and flyovers where Interstates 26, 20 and 126 converge north of downtown Columbia, where traffic congestion and delays are part of the daily drive. The South Carolina ...

Tagged with: road construction

An injunction that prevents Lowcountry attorney George Sink Jr. from using his birth name to advertise his new law firm will remain in place after a federal judge reiterated that his father, George Sink Sr., was likely to succeed in ...

Tagged with: Trademark Infringement

  A South Carolina federal judge has denied a request to set aside a verdict in which a jury concluded that two daughters had falsely accused their father of sexually abusing them and awarded the father nominal $1 verdicts against ...

Tagged with: Defamation

  The widow of an Anderson County sheriff’s deputy who was killed in a boat training exercise with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government for $3.95 million, her attorneys report. ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

  The mother of a man killed in a shooting at a Marlboro County nightclub earlier this year has reached a $1 million settlement in a wrongful death action against the club and its owner, her attorneys report. Brian Mickelsen ...

Tagged with: Shooting

A woman whose husband died after Charleston police refused to transport him to a hospital for medical care after an alcohol-related crash has reached a $550,000 settlement with the city and the county that will prompt the department to change ...

  It’s certainly no lie that polygraph tests results are persona non grata in courtrooms in South Carolina and most other states. Judges have long been skeptical of the examinations. Larry Hyman Jr., a South Carolina at-large judge, wrote in ...

Tagged with: polygraph

  The son of a prominent Lowcountry attorney has been enjoined from using his own name to advertise his legal services. A federal judge ordered George Sink Jr. to refrain from using his name to promote his law firm while ...

Tagged with: George Sink

  A woman who suffered a brain injury and 19 fractures in her face after a landscaper’s steel loader slammed into the golf cart she was riding in with her daughter has reached a $2 million pre-suit confidential settlement with ...

Tagged with: golf card

  A South Carolina law that imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years’ imprisonment for murder convictions does not violate the U.S. Constitution when applied to defendants who committed their crimes as juveniles, the state’s Supreme Court has unanimously ...

Tagged with: juvenile offenders