South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Trying to predict how the swings of the financial market will affect an investor’s portfolio is an impossible task, and one that family court judges need not dabble in when deciding whether to award alimony, the South Carolina Supreme ...

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  In the eight years that Brett Bayne of McAngus Goudelock & Courie has been practicing law, he has had a critical role in preserving the art of the trial in South Carolina. “The decline in cases going to trial ...

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  When Cody Mitchell took a job out of law school in 2011 working for Lucas, Warr, White & Mitchell, he said he never even considered working for a big city firm. Instead, he said, he chose to work at ...

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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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