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Cohabitants immune under protection act: SC Supreme Court: Codified ‘castle doctrine’ applies to housemates
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 May 18. The state argued that because Whitlee Jones killed Eric Lee inside their residence […]
Former Chief Justice Finney found after brief disappearance
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Deputies say 85-year-old former South Carolina Chief Justice Ernest Finney was found safe after being missing for a little over an hour late last week. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release that Finney drove off from his home northeast of Columbia around 4:30 p.m. Friday. The sheriff’s […]
SC high court rules prosecutors’ dispute can be made public
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s high court has made public documents in a dispute between Attorney General Alan Wilson and a special prosecutor he appointed to oversee a legislative corruption investigation. The state Supreme Court late Thursday unsealed papers Wilson filed in response to Solicitor David Pascoe. Justices also said all other documents in […]
End user must be warned
A maintenance mechanic seriously injured in a 2004 blaze at a Seneca metal refinery will be able to sue the companies that failed to put warning labels on potentially dangerous chemicals. A divided South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the companies could be sued under a theory of strict liability for defective products because workers […]
School districts seek final deadline for school funding fix
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for poor school districts that sued the state 22 years ago asked the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday to withdraw its interim deadlines for fixing school funding in exchange for a final due date. The court filing comes two days after the Legislature asked justices to revoke their September order entirely. That […]
5 judges file for open Supreme Court seat in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Five judges are vying for an open slot on South Carolina’s Supreme Court. The candidates whose names were released Monday by the Judicial Merit Selection Commission include three judges from South Carolina’s Court of Appeals: John Few, Aphrodite Konduros and Bruce Williams. Circuit Judge D. Craig Brown of Florence is also […]
Supreme Court tosses conviction, life sentence
While testimony against a man ultimately convicted of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s daughter was constitutional, it also allowed a witness wrongfully qualified as an expert witness to vouch for the alleged victim’s credibility, the South Carolina Supreme Court held Aug. 5. The appellant, Isaac Anderson, was so prejudiced—overwhelmingly, according to Justice Costa Pleicones, who wrote [...]
S.C. Supreme Court revives pollution lawsuit
A group of North Myrtle Beach landowners can continue their lawsuit against AVX Corp. after three South Carolina Supreme Court justices agreed to consider recognizing their claim for “stigma damages” resulting from ground contamination at a nearby electronics plant. AVX used trichloroethylene (TCE) as a degreaser at its now-shuttered plant in the 1980s, and last […]
Supreme Court: Trial court failed to prove current risk of sexual recidivism
The state failed to prove that a man with a history of sexual assaults against minors is currently a sexually violent predator, prompting the South Carolina Supreme Court on July 1 to overturn lower court rulings that had him involuntarily committed to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Christopher Taft, now 24, spent more […]
Like it never happened
The South Carolina Supreme Court recently ordered its little brother, the state Court of Appeals, to depublish two opinions – a relatively unusual action that one lawyer likened to the “old USSR’s attempts to rewrite history to conform to the new orthodoxies.”
SC Supreme Court order freezes James Brown estate case
AIKEN — The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered Aiken County court officials to halt all proceedings in the complex cases regarding the estate of the late soul singer James Brown. The Aiken Standard reported that the state’s highest court issued the order on Feb. 19. The order told the Aiken County Clerk of Court […]
SC high court orders resentencing for some felons
COLUMBIA (AP) — Some South Carolina felons serving life sentences are getting a chance at less time in prison, according to a ruling by the state’s highest court. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court ruled that at least 15 felons serving life sentences for homicides they committed while they were minors are eligible to return […]
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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