In a case involving property ownership in the aftermath of many parishes’ secession from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (National Church), we interpret the five separate opinions entered in this court’s 2017 ruling on this case ...

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Warm weather, sandy beaches, sunsets … so many visions of idyllic summer vacations were seemingly washed away in the COVID-19 wave of 2020. However, with distancing, quarantine, and other similar restrictions now being loosened in several states, the thought of ...

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Authorities say a woman stole more than $3 million from the South Carolina real estate company she worked for more than a decade. A police report obtained by WMBF-TVsaid an audit at Hoffman Corporation determined 48-year-old broker in charge Alicia ...

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Andon LLC v. City of Newport News, Va. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-030-16, 14 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 14-2358, Feb. 9, 2016; USDC at Newport News, Va. (Doumar, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A worship group that leased a commercial property to ...

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In re Hedesh (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-095-15, 5 pp.) (Per Curiam) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: In his real estate practice, respondent delegated some tasks – and possession of his trust account checks – to a title agent. Some documents were ...

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A Lexington County jury awarded a real estate investor more than $1.7 million in damages last month after finding that he was the victim of a property-flipping scheme involving one of his employees and an attorney who handled the transactions. ...

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Trustee Roc F. Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head A North Carolina beach town did not violate procedural due process and equal protection rights of the owners of six beachfront storm-damaged cottages declared to be “nuisances” under a town ordinance, but the 4th Circuit says the trial court erred in holding the owners’ takings claim was not ripe, and remands for further proceedings on that claim.

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Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. v. American Home Realty Network Inc. A real estate-listing website is temporarily enjoined from using photographs from online database compilers such as plaintiff, which operated local multiple listing services; although defendant website contends plaintiff cannot sue because it had not copyrighted the individual photos it used, the 4th Circuit says a subscriber clicking “Yes” to plaintiff’s terms of use prior to uploading copyrighted photos constitutes a written transfer of copyright, and the photos were registered as component parts of pre-existing material registered for protection.

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Fifteen years ago, Jimmy Judy gave his brother Ronnie some advice about how he could convey his land holdings to his sons to shield them from creditors. Jimmy probably never dreamed that the creditor who would ultimately have to sue to get the conveyances set aside would be himself.

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Garrison v. Pagette Even if defendants’ surveyor failed to adequately inform them of an easement across the 27 acres that they bought for $100,000, since defendants subdivided the property and sold several of the lots, netting more than $300,000, it does not appear that the surveyor’s omission caused defendants to suffer any damages.

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