South Carolina Lawyers Weekly recognized 27 lawyers Sept. 19 at its Excellence in Law presentation event at the Wild Dune Resort at Isle of Palms. “We believe it is important to celebrate lawye...
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Lawyers in South Carolina and North Carolina have been granted administrative reprieves after Hurricane Helene cut across the states. In South Carolina, two orders from the state’s Supreme Cour...
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By Angela M. Ordoñez, Jennifer Ginsburg and Christopher K. Barry-Smith In a speech to the American Law Institute more than 50 years ago, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger suggeste...
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Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 m...
Vermont’s Roman Catholic diocese has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal bankruptc...
Where an inmate alleged that prison officials violated his rights by violently pulling a contraband phone out of his rectum in a prison shower, the District Court erred by granting summary judgme...
https://sclawyersweekly.com/news/2024/10/01/4th-circuit-ruling-reinstates-lawsuit-over-search/
Two professors are among six new staff members joining the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina. Coming to the faculty as assistant professors of law are David Sella-V...
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WASHINGTON — The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instr...
https://sclawyersweekly.com/news/2024/10/01/fbi-to-pay-22m-to-settle-sexual-discrimination-lawsuit/
ATLANTA — Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week. The Republican...
By Daniel I. Small Most of the crimes we dealt with in the federal Magistrate’s Court in Hyattsville, Maryland, were everyday ordinary crimes, often committed by everyday ordinary people. No se...