South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

With few exceptions, municipalities enjoy governmental immunity from common-law tort claims that arise out of their performance of governmental functions. But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held recently that the town of Mocksville, North Carolina, is liable for ...

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Even though a defendant argued his public defender had a conflict of interest because her boss at the PD’s office represented a witness set to testify against him, the South Carolina Court of Appeals found no conflict. Nathaniel Wright was ...

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A debt collection agency is going to have to defend allegations that it unlawfully failed to inform plaintiffs that making payments on their debts could revive the statute of limitations, a federal court has ruled. U.S. District Judge A. Marvin ...

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A serial killer on North Carolina’s death row had no constitutional right under Simmons v. South Carolina to inform the sentencing jury that because he was already ineligible for parole, he did not pose a continuing danger to society, the ...

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This is the second article in a series revisiting some of Lawyers Weekly’s best stories over the years, seeing how issues have evolved since we last covered them, and how well our stories anticipated future developments. In December 2014, we ...

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The widow of a deceased pastor will not be able to keep on receiving a monthly stipend from her husband’s former church because the church board that made the decision to continue the payments lacked the authority to do so, ...

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  Tommie Rae Brown has secured another legal victory in her effort to prove that her marriage to legendary soul singer James Brown was the real deal. “I feel good,” quipped her Charleston-based attorney, Robert Rosen, after the South Carolina ...

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On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, a federal judge in South Carolina has ruled that employers can require employees to forfeit their rights to collective action claims in favor of ...

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  Tyrone King was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his neighbor in 2012. The Supreme Court ruled July 18 that his conviction should be reversed because the trial court erred in allowing evidence of ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a 4-1 decision in late June that Quest Diagnostics, Inc. acted as a licensed healthcare provider when testing a child’s DNA to determine the cause of his seizures. In doing so, the court ...