South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By RENEE SEXTON and DAVID DONOVAN The South Carolina Court of Appeals has recommended new language for judges to use when instructing juries on the defense of accident, particularly in cases where the defendant may have been engaging in unlawful ...

Tagged with: accident defense

  After a span of more than five years in which not a single death sentence was handed down in South Carolina, in the space of less than a month earlier this year two juries handed down death sentences in ...

Tagged with: Death Penalty

Anyone who has a Facebook account has probably at some point gotten a message from a “spoofed” account. It looks like a message from one of your friends, but something seems not quite right—it doesn’t read like a message your ...

An insurance company that denied benefits to a disabled plant manager in the face of overwhelming evidence of his total disability has been sharply rebuked by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which unanimously affirmed a federal judge’s ruling ...

Tagged with: Disability

A major retail pharmacy has agreed to pay a $1.35 million settlement in the wrongful death of a 62-year-old Midlands woman who had her prescriptions for a weight loss drug filled at one of its locations, the plaintiff’s attorney reports. ...

A woman who was severely beaten by an intoxicated man who was celebrating an upcoming wedding at the same Charleston bar at which the woman was celebrating her birthday has won an $882,000 judgment against the bar for failing to ...

A Charleston County man who brought a loaded, unlawfully possessed pistol to an illicit drug deal was properly denied a jury instruction on self-defense at his murder trial after he shot and killed one of the counterparties, a closely divided ...

The law regarding scandalous trademarks is having an eventful decade. Back in 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected a proposed—and quite racy—trademark for a lollipop aimed at fans of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. (You can surely ...

By Peter Vieth A woman’s failure to read the label on a bottle of pills was not contributory negligence as a matter of law, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court said in the case of a pharmacy that mailed ...

Tagged with: pills

  Legal professionals occasionally come across a teenager charged with prostitution or a child in family court fearful of a parent or guardian which could indicate a more sinister situation — human trafficking. Next to law enforcement and emergency medical ...

Tagged with: human trafficking