Previously opened emails are considered to be in “electronic storage” and can, therefore, be the basis for claim under the federal Stored Communications Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a matter of first impression. The ...
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BY BILL CRESENZO and DAVID DONOVAN bcresenzo@sclawyersweekly.com A skydiving company that was evicted from Grand Strand Airport will get to take a second leap at suing employees of the Horry County Department of Airports after the South Carolina Supreme Court ...
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Some migraine sufferers have turned to medical marijuana as a way to treat headaches, but a medical marijuana bill that’s currently working its way through the South Carolina legislature could potentially cause headaches of its own for employers in ...
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A Spartanburg-based fabric manufacturer has received a defense verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina after a judge upheld a jury’s verdict from over a year ago, the company’s ...
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A man and wife who suffered emotional damages when they were trapped in their overturned vehicle after crashing into a drunk driver have won a $795,000 jury verdict in Orangeburg County Circuit Court, the family’s attorney reports. All but ...
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A Conway woman’s voluntary manslaughter conviction has been overturned because there was no evidence that she shot her husband in a heat of passion, and thus no justification for the trial judge to instruct the jury on the charge ...
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BY PATRICK HOFF A Charleston County judge has struck down an annexation challenge from the city of Charleston and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ruling that neither party has standing to block North Charleston’s 2017 annexation of an acre ...
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Records from an interstate database of pseudoephedrine purchases fall within an exception to the rule against hearsay evidence, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression. The court’s Feb. 27 ruling was substituted ...
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In 2014, Chad McGowan, an attorney with McGowan, Hood & Felder in Rock Hill, spent his days representing the state of South Carolina in an intense antitrust case. At night he took care of his young twins, thus making ...
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The number of volunteers stepping up to advocate on behalf of the state’s most vulnerable children in family court has soared over the past five in Richland County, even as the number of volunteers has sharply declined statewide. Participation ...
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