Beaufort County jury has awarded $50 million to the mayor of Bluffton after finding that she had been defamed for years by an outspoken critic of local government officials.  On Feb. 3, the jury ordered Calvin “Skip” Hoagland to pay ...

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — A jury in South Carolina awarded $50 million in damages to a mayor in a defamation case against a longtime critic. The Beaufort County jury decided Thursday that Skip Hoagland has to pay Bluffton ...

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  A man who alleges that he was extorted and defamed by a Slovak businessman has been awarded $32.4 million default judgment by a federal judge who found the businessman liable on two counts of violating the Racketeer Influenced and ...

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  A jury verdict in favor of a former high school football coach and athletic director who sued his former employer for defamation has been reversed by the South Carolina Court of Appeals, which unanimously ruled that the coach was ...

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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man whose charges were dropped after police body camera footage showed he did not fight an officer who attacked him is suing the city of Rock Hill and ...

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  A Charleston County couple and a Charleston divorce attorney will share a $2 million settlement after resolving a defamation claim against a man who allegedly placed defamatory signs about them around the city during contentious divorce proceedings with his ...

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  A South Carolina federal judge has denied a request to set aside a verdict in which a jury concluded that two daughters had falsely accused their father of sexually abusing them and awarded the father nominal $1 verdicts against ...

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  A group of former high school football players won’t be able to bring a defamation suit against the owners of a Charleston alt-weekly newspaper that accused them of behaving like “racist douchebags” during a post-game ritual because the term ...

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  When the leader of the South Carolina Secessionist Party announced in January that the group would be disbanding, he told news outlets that he was doing so because the group had taken a turn he didn’t like. But there ...

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Plaintiff alleges that he was defamed when a supervisor and his co-workers asserted that or discussed whether plaintiff was a homosexual: (1) supervisor Duncan allegedly made statements to one of plaintiff’s trainees that plaintiff “had sugar running through his veins” ...

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