by Jeremy R. Summerlin | Sep 23, 2025 | Constitutional Law, Employment Law
Last week, a South Carolina teacher’s aide filed what appears to the be the first-in-the-state lawsuit about her termination for her exercise of free speech, specifically about a social media post regarding Charlie Kirk. [Read more: Lauren Vaughn Lawsuit] The... read more
by Jeremy R. Summerlin | Sep 16, 2025 | Political Rights
After the Charlie Kirk assassination last week, the world of employment law has quickly turned to the numbers of employees across the country who are being disciplined, suspended, or terminated for making negative comments about Charlie Kirk (and/or celebratory... read more
by Jeremy R. Summerlin | Sep 9, 2025 | Unpaid wages
The South Carolina Court of Appeals recently upheld a wage payment jury verdict in the amount of $1.6 million in favor of the employee. I regularly handle cases for wage payment and wage theft in SC, so I’m always interested to see the details of a case that... read more
by Jeremy R. Summerlin | Aug 11, 2025 | Employment Law, Pop Culture
Balance to the Force has been restored! Or, at least, a settlement between Gina Carano and Disney has been reached in Carano’s wrongful termination lawsuit against Disney. News broke late last week that the long-running litigation brought by Carano has come to... read more
by Jeremy R. Summerlin | Jul 21, 2025 | EEOC, National Labor Relations Act
Back in May 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene early in the lawsuit filed by former NLRB chairperson Gwynne Wilcox regarding Trump’s authority to terminate her employment with the NLRB. As I wrote about earlier this year, Trump fired Wilcox... read more