South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The South Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a $600,000 award to a trucker injured by a South Carolina Ports Authority crane operator, finding no evidence that the trucker breached a duty of care in an incident that ...

Tagged with: ports

  The South Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a man who was convicted of killing a child when he set a mobile home on fire, finding that his recorded statements to police were coerced by ...

Tagged with: confidentiality

For years, the question of whether child custody and visitation issues can be submitted to binding arbitration with no oversight by the family court and no right of review by an appellate tribunal has been bouncing around in South Carolina’s courts.   In a Sept. 8 opinion, a unanimous ...

Tagged with: Arbitration Custody

A landowner has reached a $3.25 million settlement with a public utility over the utility’s condemnation of a 1.33-acre strip of land in Charleston, the landowner’s attorneys report.  Richard Bybee and Jeff Tibbals of Bybee & Tibbals in Mt. Pleasant report ...

Tagged with: eminent domain

John Gettys Jr. can’t remember a time when he did not want to be a lawyer. His father was an attorney, and later was elected as a probate judge who retired from the bench in 2010.  Just like his father, ...

Tagged with: Lawyer of the year

  A jury verdict in favor of a former high school football coach and athletic director who sued his former employer for defamation has been reversed by the South Carolina Court of Appeals, which unanimously ruled that the coach was ...

Tagged with: Defamation

  A jury appropriately inferred malice and found specific intent to kill where a Horry County woman wrapped her newborn in a trash bag and threw her in a dumpster, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled.  The question before ...

Tagged with: Attempted Murder

  A new partnership between the Charleston School of Law and the homeless shelter One80 Place looks to improve access to justice and provide legal assistance to one of Charleston’s most vulnerable populations.  As part of the Homeless Justice Project ...

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  For South Carolinians who have longed to openly carry their handguns, the wait is over. But what legal issues arise from the recently enacted South Carolina Open Carry with Training Act, and how they play out in court, remain ...

Tagged with: Open carry

An insurer will pay a policy limits settlement of $400,000 to settle claims arising out of a fatal car crash that left a toddler with multiple skull fractures.  Derek Harper of Schiller & Hamilton Law Firm in Lancaster represented the ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash