South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Seventeen attorneys answered a record-breaking 362 legal questions from the public earlier this month, when the South Carolina Bar kicked off its annual Ask-A-Lawyer call-in event. The lawyers, 16 of whom were volunteers (the other is a bar staff attorney), ...

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The insurer for a South Carolina fraternity chapter will not be on the hook to pay a settlement reached between a former pledge hurt while enduring a hazing and the fraternity alum who owned the home where the ritual took ...

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the first time has established a test for determining whether two companies were joint employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The court’s test is more worker-friendly than that of other circuits ...

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A trial judge’s narrow interpretation of the scope of the South Carolina Revenue Procedures Act, which funnels tax disputes into the Administrative Law Court, could have gutted the law and introduced a flood of new litigation into the state’s circuit ...

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A federal judge in Charleston has turned away a couple seeking a do-over because their now-suspended attorney allegedly neglected their case. U.S. District Judge David Norton’s Jan. 26 order, which cites “Hamlet,” is the latest in a series of unfortunate ...

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While answering a question of first impression in a Social Security disability case, Judge Allyson Duncan of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a moment to send a message to administrative law judges that reaches back to the ...

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A divided panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last February held in U.S. v. Shaquille Robinson that just because an individual is armed, “in and of itself,” that does not provide an objective indication of danger and ...

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Everything lives forever on the internet, the adage goes. While European courts have codified a “right to be forgotten” on the internet, under U.S. law it can be well-nigh impossible to get content scrubbed from websites or search engines. That’s ...

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A rare medical malpractice verdict in Charleston County, the first in at least 15 years, one plaintiffs’ attorney said, tops South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the largest verdicts for 2016. A Lowcountry couple sued a doctor for misdiagnosing what ...

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Property owners who got hosed in bum deals for leaky condos have scored a victory at the South Carolina Supreme Court in a case that underscores the importance of a detailed reservation-of-rights letter. The divided court held that Harleysville Group ...

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