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Agents: Police officer stole, then spent fake $100 bills
KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in South Carolina stole two counterfeit $100 bills from an evidence room and spent them at a local store. The State Law Enforcement Division said 46-year-old Kingstree Police officer Sallica Williams was charged Monday with misconduct in office. An arrest warrant said Williams took the fake […]
Constitutional – Fired officers’ due process claims can proceed
Under clearly established law, publication of public safety officers’ allegedly defamatory termination letters to the media before holding a name-clearing hearing supported the officers’ claims of due process violations. Background During the summer of 2014, Officers with the Bald Head Department of Public Safety engaged in a group text-message chain discussing topics including the Dep[...]
Father of woman killed by SC police sues
SPARTANBURG (AP) — The father of a woman shot and killed by a police officer in Spartanburg County last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit has been filed against the city of Duncan, the police department and officer Terry Lane, the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported (http://bit.ly/1NKv9iX ). In it, the estate of Rebecca […]
Criminal Practice – Search & Seizure – Reasonable Suspicion – Warrantless Search – Accessible Trunk
Robinson v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-017-14, 17 pp.) (Jean Hoefer Toal. Ch.J.) (Costa Pleicones, J., joined by Donald Beatty, J., concurring) Appealed from Charleston County Circuit Court (Kristi Lea Harrington, J.) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: When a police officer pulled up behind the car petitioner was driving, blocking the car in and preventing it […]
Civil Rights – Constitutional – Fourth Amendment – Excessive Force – Tort/Negligence – Abuse of Process Claim
Free v. Owens (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-036-14, 9 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:12-cv-01492; D.S.C. Holding: Even though the offense of an animal at large is a moderately serious situation over which a reasonable police officer would want to exert control, a reasonable officer would not twist a 63-year-old detainee’s arm and sling him around […]
Civil Rights – No Qualified Immunity for Repeated Taser Use
Meyers v. Baltimore County, Md. A police officer who repeatedly used a Taser on a man after he stopped resisting arrest does not have qualified immunity in this civil rights suit filed by the estate of the man, who died after the incident; the 4th Circuit upholds qualified immunity for two officers who entered the Baltimore County home, but reverses the district court’s decision finding[...]
Deputies: Man said he was Gov. Haley’s bodyguard
A Chapin man has been arrested for claiming to be a personal bodyguard for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Newberry County sheriff's deputies said Monday that 39-year-old William Scott Fowler had been charged with impersonating a police office and soliciting business as a private investigator.
Labor & Employment – USERRA – Unlawful Discharge Claim – Constructive Discharge – Police Officer — Internal Affairs Investigation
Reed v. City of Charleston Plaintiff alleges that, upon his return from military service, the defendant-city deliberately made his employment conditions intolerable via an internal affairs investigation that appeared to be leading to his termination and the loss of his police officer certification. Plaintiff has raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether he was constructively d[...]
Civil Rights – Qualified Immunity – Unavailable – Police Officer – Fleeing Suspect – Failure to Pay Child Support – Grabbing Glock Instead of Taser
Henry v. Purnell A deputy who mistook his pistol for a Taser can be sued for shooting an unarmed, fleeing suspect; on rehearing, the en banc 4th Circuit says a jury could find that the deputy’s mistake was “objectively unreasonable” because he should have realized he had grabbed a .40 caliber Glock handgun and there was no threat from the man he was chasing for failure to pay child [...]
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- Virginia Tech student got due process in hearing
- High court justices cross the line of propriety
- High court’s term was rough on big business
- The flip side of generative AI in law and how to address it
- The fight for equal educational opportunity continues
- Letter From The Editor – Working from Home
- NLRB joins FTC in taking aim at non-competes
- Supreme Court leaves key internet protection untouched
- US Supreme Court bites back at parody’s use of the First Amendment
- My goal: Provide the information that you need now
- Case study: North Carolina courts provide guidance on scope, limitations of attorney-client privilege
- A Different Ode to Pro Bono Work
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