South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A man who suffered severe back and neck injuries after a U.S. Postal Service carrier t-boned his vehicle has secured a $1.35 million verdict after a bench trial in federal court. Mark Bringardner of the Joye Law Firm in ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down the city of Charleston’s tour guide licensing ordinance, finding that while the city has a significant interest in protecting the tourism industry, the ordinance was an unconstitutional restriction of tour ...

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  Weighing in on the long-running dispute over the estate of James Brown, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a woman claiming to have been validly married to the Godfather of Soul wasn’t his surviving spouse entitled to a ...

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  There was a poetic bit of symmetry in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, in which the court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bans ...

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  A circuit court acted hastily in deciding an outbuilding near a man’s house wasn’t “appurtenant” to his residence and dismissing a burglary charge against a man accused of breaking into it, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, saying ...

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  Your DNA can end up in all kinds of unexpected places. When you shake someone’s hand, traces of your DNA will transfer to their hand. If that hand then grasps the butt of a handgun, your DNA could end ...

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  Grand juries are back in session, but trial juries are out until August, at the earliest. South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty had raised the possibility of resuming jury trials as soon as July when he sent ...

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COVID-19 sent thousands of attorneys scrambling to make arrangements to work from home, but it seems clear that even after the pandemic subsides, many of those attorneys won’t ever be going back to the office, or at least not full-time. ...

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“This has to stop.” With just four words, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has laid down a marker. The court was reviewing the case of a black homeless man in West Virginia who was stopped by a police ...

Tagged with: 4th Circuit Black Lives Matter

  The family of a woman who was killed after a driver hit her vehicle while she was parked on a private road has confidentially settled a lawsuit with the at-fault driver for $1.25 million, the family’s attorney reports. Charles ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck