Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones won her defamation lawsuit against the gossip website TheDirty.com on Thursday in federal court, winning an award of $338,000. A jury of eight women and two men took about 10½ hours over two days hour before delivering the unanimous verdict at the federal courthouse. Jones appeared to be fighting back […]

  The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department has paid $50,000 to settle a wrongful arrest lawsuit. Lisa Lynn Bennett sued the sheriff’s office after she was arrested in January 2012 and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle. The lawsuit said Bennett didn’t commit the crime. The lawsuit alleged that a deputy was negligent in his […]

South Carolina business lawyers at Hughey Law Firm. Top rated attorney Nathan Hughey Charleston South Carolina. From Nation Law Forum. On July 10, 2013, Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York issued a 160-page opinion holding that Apple conspired with five book publishers to raise e-book prices and eliminate retail price competition […]

A homeowner, just like a business, generally owes a duty to reasonably prepare a premises.  That means to look at the home and property for defects which should be discovered with reasonable inspection.  Basically, a homeowner who has a dangerous condition on his property which he knows about or should know about in the exercise […]

GM recall of defective products. Hughey Law Firm handles defective products cases. See $650,000.00 amputation settlement. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2013/07/10/gm-may-need-to-fix-more-midsize-cars.html

South Carolina’s tort reform laws have led to various procedural hurdles and difficulties for nursing home abuse and neglect lawyers such as Nathan Hughey and Hughey Law Firm malpractice attorneys. A recent opinion, issued by the South Carolina Supreme Court in the case of Ross v. Waccamaw will put an end to some games being […]