South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina is spending $24 million from a legal settlement over emissions with Volkswagen on more than 200 new buses that run on propane. The new buses will put the state on the edge of meeting a ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A white former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man in South Carolina who ran from a traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s latest law requiring photo identification to cast ballots went on trial on Monday, with attorneys for voters challenging the mandate by arguing it still disproportionately prevents Black residents from carrying out their constitutional right. ...

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By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues ...

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By JEFFREY COLLINS and MICHELLE LIU Associated Press COLUMBIA (AP) — Thursday marked a key deadline in the 2021 South Carolina General Assembly. It’s called the crossover deadline. Bills that pass the House or the Senate after Thursday will need ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina has moved one step closer to becoming the 48th state in the nation to pass a hate crime law. House representatives gave key approval by a 79-29 vote on April 7 to a proposal to allow harsher ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dismissed a case over former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block critics from his personal Twitter account. The court said on April 5 that there was nothing left to the case after Trump ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A slew of new lawsuits accuse South Carolina prisons officials of negligence and constitutional rights violations in a 2018 riot in which seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen others injured. In the lawsuits, filed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated a racially diverse and overwhelmingly female group to federal and other judgeships, including three Black women for the U.S. courts of appeals, one pathway to the Supreme Court. Biden promised as ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a New Mexico woman who was shot by police as she drove away from them, in a case that will allow more excessive force lawsuits against police to go forward. The ...

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