South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jun 16, 2025

Student needn’t show ‘bad faith’ in suing for accommodation, SCOTUS rules

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students with disabilities need not prove “bad faith or gross misjudgment” to sue schools under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act.

Dec 16, 2024

Federal lawsuit challenges state’s care of mentally ill residents

COLUMBIA — The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people with serious mental illnesses are taken out of group homes […]

Oct 18, 2024

EEOC sues after stroke victim denied accommodations, fired

New England Biz Law Update The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a utilities service company alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit […]

Oct 10, 2024

Lawsuits boost enforcement of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

In a significant push to enforce the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has recently taken legal action against multiple employers for alleged violations of […]

Mar 20, 2023

Federal protections for pregnant, nursing employees coming

By Julianne Story, Eleanor Kittilstad and Ayissa Maldonado BridgeTower Media Newswires On Dec. 23, 2022, President Biden signed into law two measures that expand the rights of pregnant and breastfeeding […]

Jan 26, 2016

High court rejects dispute over disability services regulation

A Columbia attorney has stumbled in her effort to force the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations that affect thousands of disabled residents. Patricia Harrison […]

Jul 26, 2015

25 years on, disabilities act has changed lives of millions

NEW YORK (AP) — Five days before he was to start college, Fred Maahs’ world turned upside down. Off the Delaware coast in 1980, on the last day of summer […]

Mar 24, 2015

Visible difference in 4th Circuit’s take on ‘invisible disability’

A former deputy court clerk in North Carolina will be able to go to trial with her lawsuit alleging that her bosses violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by terminating […]

Mar 11, 2014

Labor & Employment – Civil Rights – ADA – HIV – First Impression – Falsifying Forms

Lundy v. Phillips Staffing (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-061-14, 9 pp.) (Timothy Cain, J.) 7:13-cv-00062; D.S.C. Holding: Asymptomatic HIV is a “disability” within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act. […]

Oct 31, 2012

Labor & Employment – ADA – Medical Leave – Medical Examination – Termination

Davenport v. Michelin North America, Inc. Where plaintiff alleges that, despite his own doctors’ releasing him to return to work, a company doctor’s work-hardening program prescription and work restrictions caused plaintiff to miss his deadline for returning to work after a medical leave, leading to plaintiff’s termination, the “business necessity” standard does not entitle defe[...]

Sep 18, 2012

New law, shift in EEOC focus spur disability bias lawsuits

Employment attorneys say that they have seen an increase in disability-related charges since final regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act went into effect more than a year ago. Lawyers say they have also noticed a dramatic change in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s approach to disability bias investigations.

Jul 1, 2011

Denny’s to pay $1.3M to former employees

Denny’s has agreed to pay $1.3 million to dozens of former employees as part of a consent decree that requires the Spartanburg-based restaurant chain to overhaul its corporate policies regarding people with disabilities. The settlement, signed last week by U.S. District Court Judge William D. Quarles Jr. in Baltimore, Md., came more than four years after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity [...]