(April 30, 2018, 2:09 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina recognizes an evidentiary privilege for trade secrets, but that privilege is considered a qualified privilege, a split South Carolina Supreme Court ruled April 25 in answering a certified question from the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a wrongful death lawsuit (Theodore Hartsock v. Goodyear Dunlop Tires North America Ltd., et al., No. 27793, S.C. Sup., 2018 S.C. LEXIS 44)....