Hampton County, SC, Health Services Agreement With SHP, 2008 HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT between the County of Hampton (hereinafter referred to collectively as "County"), and Southern Health Partners, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (hereinafter referred to as "SHP"), is entered into as of the ___ day of _ _ __ …
Food Deprivation & Pink Clothing Imposed for Violating South Carolina Prison Rules by David Reutter by David M. Reutter South Carolina?s Commissioner of Corrections, Jon Ozmint, has embraced hardcore disciplinary methods to deal with prisoners who violate prison rules. Such punishments include depriving prisoners of food and requiring them to …
As New Regulations Limit Organ Transplants from Executed Chinese Prisoners; South Carolina Allows Organ Donations by Prisoners by In November 2006, China finally admitted that most of the human organs used to satisfy the burgeoning number of transplant-seeking foreigners came from executed prisoners. ?Apart from a small portion of traffic …
South Carolina Litigation Act Does Not Apply to Post-conviction Proceedings by South Carolina state prisoner Stacy Wade pled guilty to various drug charges. Without filing a direct appeal, he filed for post conviction relief (PCR) for allegedly being coerced into the plea bargain. Wade's testimony of coercion at his PCR …
Charging Excessive Fees Preparing, Producing Records Prohibited Under Freedom Of Information Act by The South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition (CJC) probed the Office of the Attorney General (AG) for an opinion regarding excess fees for requesting documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and clarification as to who determines …
Records Disclosure Ordered In Deputies' Misconduct And Remanded To Determine Attorney's Fees by Ray Burton, III, and East Coast Newspapers, Inc. (Burton), sought injunctive relief and declaratory judgment to obtain documents regarding a 2000 complaint, and the response to the complaint, against South Carolina's York County Sheriff's (YCS) deputies. The …
South Carolina Law Enforcement Reports Ordered Disclosed To Media by Newberry Publishing Company, Inc. (Publisher), appealed a court ruling denying an investigative report's production. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division claimed that it was exempt as investigative material. The court reversed the order for nondisclosure with few exceptions. The Publisher …
Attack by Fellow Prisoner Nets South Carolina Prisoner $30,000 by A South Carolina Court awarded a prisoner $30,000 for injuries he suffered when attacked by another prisoner at the Greenville County Jail. Mr. Edwards was a prisoner at the Greenville County Jail when he was attacked by another prisoner. He …
South Carolina Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $600,000 by In May 2007 a South Carolina jury awarded $600,000 to a state prisoner who alleged that guards beat him and sprayed him with mace in an unprovoked attack. Alonzo Brinkley, 32, claimed in his lawsuit, filed in the Marlboro County Court …
South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Fall, Broken Ankle by On August 21, 2006, a South Carolina jury awarded $4,000 to a man who fell and broke his ankle while imprisoned in the Charleston County Detention Center. Plaintiff Clark Green, 40, claimed that while imprisoned in the two-story jail he …
Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Exhibit 12 - Contract Between SHP and Charles Bush, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2007 Exhibit 1 PHYSICIAN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENT between Southern Health Partners, Inc. and CHARLES A. BUSH, M.D. THIS AGREEMENT IS MADE AND ENTERED INTO this 1ST day of July, 2001, between …
Motion to Quash Subpeona of DNA Sample Denied by Motion to Quash Subpoena of DNA Sample Denied A South Carolina U.S. District Court has ordered a female prison guard to produce a DNA sample for a grand jury. Shaddie Clark Shabazz is a female guard at a South Carolina federal …
Supreme Court Discusses § 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status by The United States Supreme Court held that a South Carolina nonprofit private school, which prescribed and enforced racially discriminatory admission standards on the basis of religious doctrine, did not qualify as a tax-exempt organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. …
Federal Prisoners Sanctioned Loss of Good Time for Frivolous Suit by A South Carolina federal district court held a lawsuit filed by two federal prisoners was frivolous and ordered loss of good time credits. The suit was filed by two federal prisoners convicted of various narcotics charges. Their 42 U.S.C. …
South Carolina: Liberty Interest Not Implicated by Denial of Rehabilitation by The Supreme Court of South Carolina held that the denial of a prisoner's grievance requesting immediate enrollment in the second phase of a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) did not create a liberty interest entitling him to have the …
Supreme Court Bans Drug Testing of Pregnant Women by At 1288: "The reasonable expectation of privacy enjoyed by the typical patient undergoing diagnostic tests in a hospital is that the results of those tests will not be shared with nonmedical personnel without her consent." See: Ferguson v. City of Charleston, …
Fourth Circuit Demands Particularized Right Under Qualified Immunity by In qualified immunity analysis, "[a] preliminary task is to define the constitutional right at issue 'at a high level of particularity.'" (279, citation omitted) The court cites one of its 1999 cases for this point and does not discuss whether this …
Attorney Fee Award Increased in Conditions Case by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit upheld a lower court's grant of attorney fees higher than the lawyer's normal rates due to the complexity of the case. The fee award in this class action conditions case in South Carolina totaled …
$1,000,000 Award for Crude, Nonconsensual Finger Amputation by On May 22, 2001, a South Carolina jury awarded $1 million to a state prisoner who claimed that after he traumatically severed his ring finger in a slip and fall accident, a prison doctor crudely amputated the residual bone at the prison …
Standard Set for Violation of Free Exercise Clause by The U.S. Supreme Court held that government may not deny unemployment benefits to a claimant who was unable to obtain employment because of religious objections she would not take Saturday work. After being discharged from her job as a textile mill …
