A judge has ordered the town of Mt. Pleasant to pay $2.6 million to a developer after the town backed out of a downtown parking garage and office development due to public opposition to the project. Brandon Gaskins of ...

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The potential buyer of a property in downtown Charleston has won a $900,000 jury verdict after the owner reneged on a deal to sell it, the plaintiff’s attorney reported. Morgan Templeton of Wall, Templeton & Haldrup in Charleston reports that ...

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Membership documents signed by a Beaufort County couple require them to continue to pay thousands of dollars in dues and fees to a social club, even though they resigned from it, the South Carolina Supreme Court said in a split ...

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Although plaintiff claims that the defendant-employer’s “Harassment and Conduct of Employees” policies gave her the expectation that the employer would conduct investigations, punish employees and refrain from terminating her employment when incidents of sexual and physical harassment were reported, plaintiff ...

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  A company that failed to restore its fire-damaged building has been ordered by a Charleston County jury to pay more than $1.2 million in damages to one of its tenants, plaintiffs’ attorneys have reported. Court documents show that Sea ...

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North Charleston Community Interfaith Shelter v. Bank of America, N.A. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-008-18, 7 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 2:16-cv-01250; D.S.C. Holding: In 2006, the plaintiff-charity’s then-executive director, Nancy Cook, took out a loan from the defendant-bank, using the ...

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Hall v. Family YMCA of Greater August (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-099-17, 24 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:17-cv-00337; D.S.C. Holding: The complaint sufficiently alleges that the defendant-employer breached the parties’ employment contract when it fired her without following the procedures ...

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Arvanites v. Exopack, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-184-16, 31 pp.) (Bruce Howe Hendricks, J.) 6:15-cv-02112; D.S.C. Holding: Although defendants point to evidence that plaintiff falsified expense reports and gave confidential information to a former co-worker, since plaintiff has proffered explanations ...

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A Charleston County jury has given some real teeth to an employment agreement between a dental services chain and the company’s founder. The jury returned a $1.23 million verdict against the company after it yanked its chief operating officer and ...

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A jury has awarded $5 million in damages to an investor who alleged that Beaufort County breached the terms of a settlement agreement by torpedoing a developer’s plans to build a subdivision on coastal land. The investor formed Road LLC ...

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