Foreign Academic & Cultural Exchange Services, Inc. v. Tripon Even though federal law prevents the circuit court from issuing an injunction requiring the defendant-teacher to comply with the parties’ contract provision that requires her to return to Romania at the end of her contract term, plaintiff may still be able to prove that the teacher’s failure to return home to Romania was a breach of the parties’ contract. We reverse summary judgment for the teacher.

Tagged with: Breach of Contract Damages Labor & Employment

South Carolina Federal Credit Union v. Higgins Where there was contradictory evidence as to the competency of the co-signer on an auto loan, the trial court should not have directed a verdict on this issue.

Tagged with: Contract Damages

V.E. Amick & Associates, LLC v. Palmetto Environmental Group, Inc. The retirement of the plaintiff-contractor’s only registered engineer did not make the defendant-subcontractor’s performance impossible. The Department of Health and Environmental Control continued to approve the contractor’s reports; moreover, the subcontractor’s owner admitted that the reason the subcontractor stopped working on the projects was because it ran out of money, not because of impossibility of performance. We affirm the trial court’s denial of the subcontractor’s motions for a directed verdict, judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and a new trial nisi remittitur.

Tagged with: Administrative Contract Damages

Curtis v. Blake. Although the jury awarded plaintiff 100 times more in damages than he incurred in medical expenses, the verdict was supported by evidence of other damages -- lost wages, pain, and an inability to . . .

Tagged with: Damages Orangeburg County Personal Injury Tort/Negligence

Luchok v. Vena. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-153-10, 3 pp.) (John C. Few, Ch.J.) Appealed from Richland County Circuit Court. (L. Casey Manning, J.) S.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: The damages in this rear-end ...

Tagged with: Damages Personal Injury Richland County Tort/Negligence

Coake v. Burt. The trial court should have let the jury decide whether the buyers' inspection of the real property was reasonable: one of the buyers spent a couple of hours inspecting the property himself, but the inspection report he commissioned wasn't . . .

Tagged with: Anderson County Damages Real Property