The appellant-children of the decedent contend that respondent was not married to their father at the time of his death because she had previously married Javed Ahmed and did not end that marriage before she married the decedent. However, since ...

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Even though, when it filed its wrongful death action, the respondent-estate alleged that appellant Charles Gary was the decedent’s surviving spouse, since Gary was still married to someone else when he purported to marry the decedent, the estate is not ...

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Doe v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-068-17, 24 pp.) (Donald Beatty, C.J.) (Costa Pleicones, Acting Justice, concurring in the result only without separate opinion) (John Few, J., dissenting) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Where the Domestic Violence Reform Act and the ...

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Nightingale v. Caliber Holdings Corp. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-181-17, 6 pp.) (Timothy Cain, J.) 7:17-cv-00013; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff is not judicially estopped from pursuing this Title VII action based on her failure to include this action as an asset in ...

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State Farm Life Insurance Co. v. Murphy (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-176-17, 13 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:15-cv-04793; D.S.C. Holding: When a family court judge issued a “final order” in August 2010 approving the parties’ separation agreement – which required each ...

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Doe v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-042-17, 20 pp.) (Costa Pleicones, Acting Justice) (John Kittredge, J., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) (Donald Beatty, C.J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) (John Few, J., concurring in part ...

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Kawai v. UaCearnaigh (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-125-17, 8 pp.) (Mary Geiger Lewis, J.) 3:17-cv-00492; D.S.C. Holding: This case arises under federal law because 8 U.S.C. § 1183a(e) authorizes plaintiff, as the sponsored alien of defendant’s I-864 Affidavit of Support, to ...

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Strickland v. County Council of Beaufort County, SC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-020-17, 15 pp.) (Joan Ericksen, J.) 9:17-cv-00067; D.S.C. Holding: The Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not prevent federal courts from determining whether income withholding notices – issued after a state court ...

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A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death during a domestic dispute inside an apartment they shared was justified in doing so, immune from prosecution under the South Carolina’s Protection of Persons and Property Act, the state Supreme Court ruled ...

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Bass v. South Carolina Department of Social Services (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-129-15, 15 pp.) (Jean Hoefer Toal, C.J.) Appealed from Fairfield County Circuit Court (R. Ferrell Cothran Jr., J.) On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. S.C. S. ...

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