Overruling decades of precedent, the South Carolina Supreme Court has abolished the requirement of pleading special damages as an element of a civil conspiracy claim, finding that it resulted from a “misinterpretation of law.”  Leisel Paradis, a former teacher ...

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State Farm Life Insurance Co. v. Murphy (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-138-17, 13 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:15-cv-04793; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff brought this interpleader action because, in the aftermath of S.C. Code Ann. § 62-2-507, plaintiff was unable to determine the ...

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Saxton v. Irmo Police Department (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-069-16, 7 pp.) (Joseph Anderson Jr., J.) 3:15-cv-01244; D.S.C. Holding: As a public official, a police officer cannot normally bring a civil conspiracy claim against a member of the public arising out ...

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Gentry Technology of S.C., Inc. v. Baptist Health South Florida, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-033-16, 12 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:14-cv-02127; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff has failed to cite to case law suggesting that its only other remaining claim – ...

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Killian v. City of Abbeville (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-045-15, 9 pp.) (Timothy Cain, J.) 8:14-cv-01078; D.S.C. Holding: Where plaintiff’s civil conspiracy claim indicates that the individual defendants’ alleged misconduct resulted in his termination from at-will employment, his conspiracy claim must ...

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Grady v. Spartanburg Sch. Dist. Seven (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-073-14, 19 pp.) (G. Ross Anderson, Jr., J.) 7:13-cv-02020; D.S.C. Holding: The magistrate court properly determined that the plaintiff’s factual allegations sufficiently state a plausible claim of civil conspiracy against the ...

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Hickey v. Resolution Management Consultants, Inc. Since defendants’ abuse of process counterclaim alleges no acts other than plaintiffs’ – ultimately unsuccessful -- removal to federal court of four New Jersey state-court actions filed by defendants against plaintiff, defendants have failed to allege a willful act in the use of process not proper in the conduct of the proceeding.

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A Myrtle Beach man’s lawsuit against a Horry County police officer and state trooper is heavy on soap-opera drama and light on legal substance, a U.S. District Court judge in Florence has ruled. The plaintiff claimed that his wife was having an affair with the officer and that the two lovers conspired to have him arrested for drunken driving. His wife had told the officer that her husband was getting drunk at a bar and would eventually be driving home.

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Pridgen v. Ward. Plaintiff's evidence allowed a jury to conclude that defendants - a group of S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDC) employees - conspired and violated SCDOC policy in order to have plaintiff fired from his position with SCDOC. We affirm the . . .

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Jenkins v. Few. The essence of a civil conspiracy claim is the damage resulting to the plaintiff. The damages alleged must go beyond the damages alleged in other causes of action. The evidence in this case supported the trial court's ruling that the plaintiff alleged . . .

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