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S.C. Legal Services to use grant to offer more classes
S.C. Legal Services, a nonprofit providing free legal assistance to Palmetto State residents, has received a $155,940 grant from the Legal Services Corp. to help improve its use of technology to assist low-income individuals with civil legal needs. The nonprofit will use the grant to expand the number of online classes it offers, including new […]
Episcopal Church wins federal trademark suit
The Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church of South Carolina have won a federal false advertising and trademark infringement lawsuit at the center of a series of disputes with a breakaway group. The lawsuit, known as vonRosenberg v. Lawrence, was filed in 2013 after a group of several dozen Anglican parishes broke away from the […]
Mount Pleasant doctor guilty of drug trafficking
A Mount Pleasant doctor has been found guilty in federal court of illegal distribution of a controlled substance. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, Dr. Ronald Hargrave, 60, accompanied a female patient to a Walgreens pharmacy in Columbia in May 2015 to fill a prescription […]
Utility contractor charged with tax violations
A Berkeley County utility contractor was arrested by S.C. Department of Revenue agents on Friday on charges he failed to file tax returns. Randall Lee Jones, 42, of Cross, owns Cape Fear Utilities LLC, a utility construction company. Jones was also charged with failure to account and pay over withholding tax for his employees. The […]
Lawsuit accuses biotech company of discrimination
Seven black women have filed a discrimination lawsuit against their employer, Charles River Laboratories, accusing the company of allowing racial comments in the workplace and of engaging in the practice of promoting less-experienced white employees over longtime black employees. The plaintiffs’ case accuses the company of tolerating systemic discrimination against black workers for years and […][...]
Judge denies Parish’s request for resentencing
A federal judge has denied a resentencing request from a Ponzi scheme mastermind who swindled about $66 million from hundreds of people. Al Parish was sentenced to 292 months in prison for the scheme by Judge David Norton in July 2008 and is held in the low-security federal correctional institution in Butner, N.C. After learning[...]
Historic Charleston Foundation appeals zoning board decision
Historic Charleston Foundation has filed an appeal in Charleston County Circuit Court asking the court to reverse a Charleston Board of Zoning Appeals decision that would allow a 252-room hotel to be built on Meeting Street. The property at 431 Meeting St. is currently owned by Charleston School of Law but is under contract to sell […]
Personal injury lawyer sues son over firm’s name
By Matt Chaney mchaney@sclawyersweekly.com A prominent personal injury attorney in the Lowcountry is suing his son for trademark infringement for using his birth name in advertising his new, independent law firm. George Sink Sr. alleges (.pdf) that George “Ted” Sink Jr. and the firm he started in February are improperly using the father’s well-known and […]
Charleston Legal Access names new executive director
Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit law firm that aims to expand access to legal services in South Carolina, has named Lana Kleiman as its new executive director. Kleiman assumed the role on April 1. She takes over for Adair Ford Boroughs, who announced her campaign for Congress representing the state’s 2nd district earli[...]
Mount Pleasant man charged with Medicare fraud
A Mount Pleasant man has been charged by the U.S. District Court for alleged participation in a $200 million scheme to defraud Medicare through kickbacks and bribes in exchange for medically unnecessary medical equipment, according to an indictment. The indictment (.pdf), filed in the District of South Carolina on April 4 and unsealed last week, […]
Episcopal Church files petition with Supreme Court over properties
The Episcopal Church in South Carolina and The Episcopal Church have filed a petition with the S.C. Supreme Court (.pdf) requesting that the court enforce its August 2017 decision about 29 properties currently held by a breakaway group. The S.C. Supreme Court ruled in August 2017 that the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, […]
Judge strikes down annexation challenge
A Charleston County judge has struck down an annexation challenge from the city of Charleston and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ruling that neither party has standing to block North Charleston’s 2017 annexation of an acre along S.C. Highway 61. “Absent deceitful conduct, there are generally only two groups with standing to challenge a […]
