Government watchdog Edward “Ned” Sloan Jr. has scored yet another victory against a state agency, this time prevailing over the Department of Transportation in a dispute centered on public resources being used to inspect private bridges in a city ...
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What does it mean for an employee to put an employer on notice of a disability? For a federal judge in South Carolina, the answer was simple. U.S. District Judge Bruce Hendricks rejected what she deemed to be the “needlessly ...
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In the Aug. 30 decision in State v. Moore, the opinions of three South Carolina Court of Appeals judges fell within varied points of the legal spectrum regarding what constitutes a Fourth Amendment violation in the warrantless search of a ...
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A Charleston couple is spearheading a class action lawsuit against online retail giant Amazon over the sale of millions of allegedly defective eclipse glasses that might have damaged the eyes of skygazers across the country. Thomas Payne and Kayla Harris ...
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An alumna and former employee of a for-profit law school in Arizona has settled a federal suit accusing her alma mater and its corporate owner of retaliating against her for refusing to submit false tax documents. Paula Lorona had also ...
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A South Carolina pet supply company that sent high-priced Boston-based intellectual property lawyers into a contempt fight with a competitor could get stuck with a big legal bill, despite emerging the victor in the underlying litigation. Nutramax Laboratories argued that ...
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Prosecutors in South Carolina need not prove that a defendant knew what type of drugs he was transporting to shore up a conviction for trafficking, the state Court of Appeals has ruled in a novel decision. Whether a defendant must ...
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Criminal defendants in the federal courts covered by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may have an easier time coming up the funds to pay for their defense attorneys from now on. On Aug. 18 the full 4th Circuit ...
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An unnamed criminal defense attorney and her investigator will have to answer federal prosecutors’ questions about how they came to be in possession of allegedly fraudulent documents that were introduced as evidence at their client’s trial. The 4th U.S. Circuit ...
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There is a bright-line rule that mailing does not constitute the filing of a post-conviction relief application for statute of limitation purposes. Rather, a PCR application is considered filed when the clerk of court receives it. But when a petitioner ...
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South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
