MYRTLE BEACH (AP) It appears questions about jurisdiction delayed a police response to a shooting death in South Carolina last week. News outlets reported 42-year-old Mark Verhasselt was found dead in the parking lot of a condominium complex near Myrtle ...

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A petitioner filed her “innocent spouse” tax claim one week late because IRS representatives allegedly misinformed her of the filing deadline, but the U.S. Tax Court had no authority to waive compliance. Background The IRS charged Shari and Derek Nauflett ...

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U.S. v. Surratt (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-093-17, 32 pp.) No. 14-6851, April 21, 2017; USDC at Charlotte, N.C. (Conrad, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: By order dated Feb. 14, 2017, the court directed the parties to address the impact of the ...

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Coleman v. Walker Morgan, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-064-17, 4 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, S.J.) 3:16-cv-03061; D.S.C. Holding: In response to plaintiff’s state-court complaint, defendants filed counterclaims and plaintiff filed a counter-counterclaim asserting a violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1927. It ...

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Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. v. ConGlobal Industries (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-087-16, 14 pp.) (A. Joe Fish, S.J.) 3:15-cv-03576; Northern District of Texas. Holding: Although the District of South Carolina correctly determined that plaintiff’s claims against ConGlobal Industries should have been ...

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Brinkman v. Weston & Sampson, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-078-16, 9 pp.) (Joseph Anderson Jr., J.) 3:16-cv-00169; D.S.C. Holding: The city has not yet denied compensation to plaintiffs for the physical taking of their property, which allegedly occurred when a ...

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Doe v. Blair (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-056-16, 11 pp.) (Floyd, J.) No. 15-1211, March 21, 2016; USDC at Beckley, W.Va. (Berger, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit reverses a district court order remanding to state court a case the ...

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WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court jousted with attorneys on Nov. 4 in an effort to nail down just how much contact a defendant must have with a particular jurisdiction before he can be hauled into court ...

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Shimari v. CACI Int’l Inc. On rehearing en banc, the 4th Circuit says it has no jurisdiction to consider appeals by Iraqis who were detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib military prison and elsewhere and whose tort claims against defendant government contractors were partly dismissed by federal courts.

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Bickerstaff v. Prevost The circuit court’s order granting leave for plaintiffs to deposit funds did not establish a post-judgment interest rate; in fact, the order noted that this court would ultimately determine the rate of post-judgment interest.

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