South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Lonely nights at home might get a little more expensive if state Rep. Bill Chumley, R-Spartanburg, gets his way. Chumley has introduced a bill that would require manufacturers to install content filters on all computers and devices that access the ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court recently issued a reminder to lawyers in the state. If a client asks them to file a notice of appeal, they are required to do so—regardless of whether the appeal has any merit. In a ...

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Attorneys for a man convicted of murdering his estranged wife say they plan to ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider a recent decision that reinstated the death sentence against their client. The South Carolina Supreme Court’s Nov. 23 decision ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court wants trial courts to take note: They are no longer allowed to instruct juries in criminal sexual assault cases that the testimony of the victim doesn’t need to be corroborated. A Nov. 2 per curiam ...

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The South Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a social worker’s claim that the quasi-judicial immunity provided to Guardians ad Litem should have precluded a disciplinary action against her. The appeals court found that extending quasi-judicial immunity to disciplinary proceedings ...

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The family of a South Carolina teenager who was killed in a single-car collision will receive $6.1 million under a settlement. Christopher Hart of the Hart Law Firm in Columbia, who represented the plaintiffs in the case, said the Aug. ...

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Callison Tighe partner M. Malissa Burnette has never been one to hold her tongue when she sees people being treated unfairly. In fact, she said her death will likely be caused by “being sarcastic at the wrong moment.” But Burnette’s ...

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They say that in prison, there’s always someone who can get you whatever contraband you’re looking for. Typically, however, that person isn’t one of the corrections officers keeping watch over the inmates. But at the Federal Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, ...

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It’s a bad week to be a fan of Louisiana State University football. But it could be an even worse week for juvenile defendants in Louisiana. A new paper by LSU economics professors Naci Mocan and Ozkan Eren found that ...

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Ask any legal writing instructor, and they’ll tell you just how perilous imprecise language can be. A single stray word can create costly confusion for attorneys and their clients. But sometimes, it’s not a bad strategy to leave things a ...

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