South Carolina — Palmetto
The Escalation Zone, South Carolina calibration.
Pressure in a South Carolina case runs inside statutory governors — every one below is loaded and quoted, and the first one names pro se litigants expressly.
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The reasonable-attorney line — and it binds the self-represented too
"An attorney or pro se litigant participating in a civil or administrative action or defense may be sanctioned"
The certification standard is objective: 'a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe his claim or defense is not frivolous'. Proceeding without counsel does not exempt anyone from it — the statute names pro se litigants expressly.
THE CONTEMPORANEOUS AFFIDAVIT: professional-negligence aggression dies at filing
"the plaintiff must file as part of the complaint an affidavit of an expert witness which must specify at least one negligent act or omission"
Not sixty days later — AS PART OF THE COMPLAINT. The section carries its own narrow exceptions (including imminent limitations expiry); read them on the unit before relying on any of them.
The forever-bar pair — the government's own clock
"forever barred unless an action is commenced within two years after the date the loss was or should have been discovered"
Escalating against a public entity starts with the calendar: two years by default, three only if the verified claim was filed first. The proviso is the whole strategy.
The discovery-plan good-faith fee sanction — from the loaded Rule 37 itself
"fails to participate in good faith in the framing of a discovery plan by agreement as is required by Rule 26(f)"
The sanctions machinery is loaded whole here (no vendor boundary): expenses and fees can follow bad-faith framing before any motion war begins.
The motion clocks that pace an escalation are loaded and computed raw — the registry holds them, with the loaded counting rule linked as a unit.