A real estate agent who accepted an offer of judgment for five times less than what his opponent subsequently received to settle his counterclaims still qualifies as the prevailing party under the Civil Rights Act, according to a novel decision ...
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Read More »Hueble v. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-036-16, 15 pp.) (Kaye Hearn, J.) (John Kittredge, J., dissenting) Appealed from Greenwood County Circuit Court (Eugene Griffith Jr., J.) On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. ...
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Read More »Conits v. Conits (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-028-16, 15 pp.) (Paul Short Jr., J.) Appealed from Greenville County Family Court (David Guyton, J.) S.C. App. Holding: The defendant-husband owned several properties before the parties got married; however, the parties paid off ...
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Read More »Jordan v. Colvin (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-110-15, 5 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 8:12-cv-01676; D.S.C. Holding: This court found that the administrative law judge – in discounting an attorney-referred doctor’s opinion and denying disability benefits – had failed to adequately explain ...
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South Carolina Legal Services more than tripled the amount of attorneys’ fees that it collected between 2013 and 2014. The totals for both years are modest –$5,695 and $18,765, respectively – but the increase shows that legal aid attorneys are getting more aggressive about asking the courts to award fees.
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Lawyers who use a contingency fee agreement in eminent domain cases shouldn’t necessarily expect to recover all of the fees they contracted for, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled earlier this month. The court said that trial courts may consider ...
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Read More »SCBT, N.A. v. Sand Dollar 31, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-131-14, 3 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Richland County (Joseph Strickland, Master-in-Equity) S.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where there is no evidence in the record that the plaintiff-bank ever filed affidavits ...
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Read More »Buist v. Buist (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-133-14, 8 pp.) (Jean Hoefer Toal, Ch. J.) (Costa Pleicones, J., concurring in the result only) Appealed from Abbeville County Family Court (Billy Tunstall Jr., J.) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: The petitioner-husband objected only ...
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A York County father will not be on the hook for $5,000 in attorneys’ fees after the South Carolina Court of Appeals overturned the circuit court’s award on June 4. Attorneys for the father called the decision a significant precedent ...
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Read More »Pelczynski v. Orange Lake Country Club, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-111-14, 18 pp.) (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:11-cv-01829; D.S.C. Holding: Since well-qualified local attorneys charge $150 to $250 per hour to work on behalf of Fair Labor Standards Act claimants, ...
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South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
