South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

It’s been one year since 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski retired in the face of allegations of improper sexual conduct and abusive practices toward colleagues and law clerks. Since then, much conversation has occurred in Congress ...

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  Magistrates and solicitors in York County are in open conflict about whether state law allows members of same-sex couples to bring criminal domestic violence charges against abusive partners. County magistrates have dismissed at least five cases of domestic violence ...

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While the practice of law is the primary business of attorneys, some attorneys are now seeing the benefits of learning the practices of businesses. To that end, law firms that serve business clients are increasingly encouraging their attorneys to get ...

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Federal courts have the power to hear a motion to vacate or modify an arbitration award in any dispute where they would have the power to hear a motion to compel arbitration, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

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  A Greenville man convicted of manslaughter has been given another day in court after the South Carolina Court of Appeals found that his confessions were obtained illegally. The court said that because Marshell Hill was in custody at the ...

Tagged with: Miranda Warnings

An insurance company won’t have to defend the wife of an accused sexual abuser who is being sued over claims that she negligently allowed her husband to continue abusing a young girl in their home, the South Carolina Supreme Court ...

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Creditors seeking to execute a judgment must do so within 10 years or forfeit that right, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court’s Nov. 21 opinion overruled its previous decision in Linda Mc Co. v. Shore, closing a ...

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Membership documents signed by a Beaufort County couple require them to continue to pay thousands of dollars in dues and fees to a social club, even though they resigned from it, the South Carolina Supreme Court said in a split ...

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Members of the South Carolina Home Builders Self Insurers Fund can go forward with a lawsuit which alleges its Board of Trustees breached their fiduciary duties by attempting to use its assets to finance a new mutual insurance company, the ...

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An employee cannot break the law in order to collect evidence in support of a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled Nov. 15. Judge Diana Motz wrote that for an employee’s actions to be ...