Laws South Carolina Tort 
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 21, 2024
In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. This week, the South Carolina Supreme Court handed down a major ruling in Cruce v. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions.
Legal Research is Easy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Good thing that there was a law librarian nearby who could witness her acrobatics and then blog at out it to the world. As it turns out, South Carolina, where Young Lady happened to trip and tear up her knees, has it's own Torts Claim Act called, not surprisingly, the South Carolina Tort Claims Act under § 15-78-10.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 28, 2023
A terrible tragedy has befallen the University of South Carolina after sophomore Nicholas Anthony Donofrio , 20, was shot and killed on the front porch of a house in Columbia. It is an all-too-familiar pattern that we often discuss in my torts class where people are confused and try to enter the wrong home.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. The tweet came in response to South Carolina GOP Sen. Nebraska (1925), the Court struck down a state law prohibiting instruction in German. American torts have long required consent in torts. Indeed, in Meyer v. Spence , 464 F.2d
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The court also declined without comment to take up two other petitions , seeking review of a ruling by a federal appeals court that invalidated on First Amendment grounds a North Carolina law that allows employers to sue employees who make undercover video or audio recordings. South Carolina sought Supreme Court review in May 2022.
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