In answer to a question certified from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, yes, South Carolina does recognize a qualified evidentiary privilege for trade secrets. South Carolina does not delineate specific privileges through its rules of evidence. ...

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Where plaintiff has not shown that (1) there is a fiduciary relationship between the parties, (2) normal discovery will be insufficient to allow it to procure the information it needs, or (3) the parties’ relationship is too complicated for a ...

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AOH Occupational Health LLC v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-142-17, 8 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:16-cv-01926; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiffs’ medical malpractice insurer stopped providing plaintiffs with a defense when a state court ruled that the ...

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Purolite Corp. v. AVANtech, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-171-17, 7 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 3:17-cv-00692; D.S.C. Holding: Under Local Civil Rule 37.01, “motions to compel discovery must be filed within twenty-one (21) days after receipt of the discovery response ...

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Ashmore v. Dodds (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-046-17, 9 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 8:15-cv-00561; D.S.C. Holding: One element of a fraudulent conveyance claim is that defendant had notice of circumstances which would arouse the suspicion of an ordinarily prudent person ...

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Career Counseling, Inc. v. Amsterdam Printing & Litho, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-030-17, 6 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 3:15-cv-05061; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff seeks damages caused by defendants’ business practice of sending unsolicited facsimile advertisements. Where (1) plaintiff has not ...

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Priester v. Futuramic Tool & Engineering Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-028-17, 17 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-01108; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff offers “supplemental” reports by her experts “to address the instances in Defendants’ summary judgment memoranda where [the experts’] respective testimony ...

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Graham v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, PA (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-025-17, 9 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, S.J.) 0:16-cv-01153; D.S.C. Holding: Where the defendant-insurer asserts as an affirmative defense that it “did not act unreasonably or in bad-faith,” defendant ...

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Ashmore v. Allied Energy, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-095-16, 8 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 8:14-cv-00227; D.S.C. Holding: Even if the SEC did not have a problem when defendant used the same method of production of documents in an SEC ...

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Cricket Store 17, LLC v. City of Columbia (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-005-16, 11 pp.) (Terry Wooten, C.J.) 3:13-cv-03557; D.S.C. Holding: The parties were free to – and did – continue with discovery during the 10 months between the filing of ...

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