An improperly performed drug screening, or one whose results are inaccurate, can have devastating effects on a person’s life, potentially leaving them unemployed and with few prospects while the negligent laboratory faces few or no consequences. But that may ...

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Lisotto v. New Prime, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-092-15, 5 pp.) (Mary Lewis, J.) 3:14-cv-03920; D.S.C. Holding: Where plaintiff alleges that defendant has continued to report false and defamatory information about his drug testing results and has failed to correct ...

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Nucor Corp. v. South Carolina Department of Employment & Workforce (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-128-14, 10 pp.) (John Kittredge, J.) (Costa Pleicones & Donald Beatty, JJ., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) (Jean Hoefer Toal, Ch. J., concurring in ...

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Young v. CareAlliance Health Services (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-195-14, 39 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 2:12-cv-02337; D.S.C. Holding: Both the plaintiff-nurse and a white nurse were accused of mishandling narcotics; although plaintiff also had two patient armbands in her locker ...

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A bill that would yank unemployment benefits from someone who fails an employer's drug test is advancing in the House.

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Legette v. Nucor Corp. Where plaintiff alleges that the individual S.C.-resident defendant defamed her by letting her co-workers know that she was accused of illegal drug use, the individual defendant was not fraudulently joined in order to defeat diversity jurisdiction.

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