United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of a suit brought under section 325(A) of the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act, S.C. Code section 39-5-325(A), is reversed where the clause, "or to injure a competitor" in section 325(A), requires simply that "the intent or effect" of the defendant's below cost-selling be to injure the plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/22/2003
• Published 12/22/2003

Judges

• Before LUTTIG, WILLIAMS, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Matthew A. Henderson, Henderson, Brandt & Vieth, P.A., Spartanburg, South Carolina, for Appellant.  William Marvin Grant, Jr., Grant & Leatherwood, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Joshua M. Henderson, Henderson, Brandt & Vieth, P.A., Spartanburg, South Carolina, for Appellant.  R. Perry Sentell, III, Kilpatrick Stockton, L.L.P., Augusta, Georgia, for Appellee.