Nearly six years of legal wrangling between a former Charleston County public defender and his former boss is over, as Beattie Butler, who alleges that he was wrongfully terminated from the 9th Circuit Public Defender’s Office in 2014, has ...

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A South Carolina worker who claims he was fired for asking whether his company had shortchanged him out of a bonus he was due can sue his former employer for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, a federal judge ...

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Richland County has agreed to pay a former county administrator a $1 million settlement to protect the government and its councilmembers from wrongful termination lawsuits. Richland County Council voted 5-4 to the settlement after a 4-hour, closed-door session May 14, ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A former employee of a South Carolina chiropractor says he sexually assaulted her and tried to convert her to Scientology. A lawsuit filed in state court accuses Joseph Ben Barton of unlawfully firing the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” ...

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The Town of Surfside Beach fired its building official in violation of public policy when it terminated her for issuing a stop-work order to a local restaurant, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 26. The court affirmed a ...

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Gray v. American HomePatient, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-040-15, 9 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-01207; D.S.C. Holding: The public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine does not extend to situations where the employee has an existing statutory remedy for wrongful ...

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The police chief of the Dillon County town of Latta has been fired and she says it is because she is gay.

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The officer who was fired from Pickens police after ticketing Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney has dropped his wrongful-termination lawsuit against the city.

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Hand v. SunTrust Bank, Inc. Plaintiff was fired from her job as assistant branch manager for servicing the business account of a company for which she performed part-time work. Plaintiff alleges her supervisors at the defendant-bank engaged in negligent misrepresentation when they directed her to service the account.

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Ragin v. Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. of GA Contrary to defendants’ argument, Yost v. City of Charleston (D.S.C. Nov. 24, 2009) does not stand for the proposition that a plaintiff may not sue co-workers for a defamatory statement made in connection with the plaintiff’s termination if the statements were made within the course and scope of their employment.

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