South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A $100,000 settlement between Clemson University and a former student who was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate will be allowed to stand after a federal judge rejected the student’s request to overturn the agreement because of concerns regarding its ...

  Dorchester County ran afoul of state election laws when it asked voters an all-or-nothing question on whether to approve a pair of major capital bond projects, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In 2016 county voters approved a ...

Tagged with: referendum

  Graduation day was no doubt exhilarating for the hundreds of law school graduates in South Carolina who collected their J.D.’s this month, and just as much so for the law schools proudly sending them off into the world. The ...

Tagged with: USC School of Law

The statute of limitations on a claim of deficient notice of disposition of collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code begins only when the property has been disposed of, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a ...

A South Carolina man who became quadriplegic after breaking his neck in a bicycle crash on a sidewalk has settled with the builders of the pathway for $3.45 million, his attorney said. The names of the plaintiffs and the county ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

  An elderly woman whose bones were crushed after a medical transport van twice ran over her legs has settled a lawsuit for $1 million, her attorney reports. Ryan Montgomery of Greenville, who represented the 79-year-old woman, said that his ...

Tagged with: Automobile Accident

  A Newberry man who suffered severe burns on 90 percent of his body when scalding-hot water splashed onto him in a workplace accident has settled with the company who made the dangerous machine that allegedly caused the accident for ...

Tagged with: Product Liability

  A woman who was thrown from a vehicle being driven by her drunk friend while they were celebrating her birthday has settled a lawsuit against the restaurant that served them for $975,000, her attorney reports. In January 2016, the ...

Tagged with: Dram shop

  Part of the joy of reading or watching Game of Thrones is that developments that seem relatively minor at the time often prove to be unexpectedly important as the story unfolds. The writings of lawmakers can likewise sometimes prove ...

Tagged with: opportunity zones

  The family of a pregnant mother of two who died at the age of 30 has settled a medical malpractice claim against an emergency room physician for $2.6 million, the family’s attorney reports. John Kassel of Kassel McVey in ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice