South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Let’s face it. Some trials just aren’t that interesting. But if you’ve been accused of robbing a grocery store, you’d probably want the judge to stay awake for the proceedings. Alas, that wasn’t the case during a recent trial in ...

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Since the Civil War, Congress has routinely taken the position that members of the military should be protected from civil actions while they are on active duty. Those protections have evolved over the decades, but the basic idea remains the ...

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Same-sex marriage became legal in South Carolina seven months before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges last year, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. But even with that head start, South Carolina has left many ...

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When Chernoh Jalloh, 28, of Philadelphia, was arrested in August 2015 following a traffic stop, he was found to have more than 90 bogus credit and debit cards hidden in his car—23 of which were embossed with his name. Maybe ...

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A state-run nursing home in Columbia has agreed to pay the family of Lonnie Martin $250,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that medical officials were negligent in their treatment of the former resident, ultimately resulting in Martin’s death. Martin, 87, ...

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Fearing that attorneys are being used as a “rubber stamp” in residential real estate transactions, the South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an opinion that requires lawyers to play a larger role in ensuring loan proceeds are disbursed properly. Under ...

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Nexsen Pruet partner Brad Waring—or should we say Sir Brad Waring?—has been named a knight of the Order of Dannebrog by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II. Not bad for a South Carolina boy. Waring has served as an honorary Danish consul ...

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South Carolina’s court system for handling low-level criminal offenses is garnering attention from national civil rights groups—and not in a good way. A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers found ...

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A juvenile defendant facing charges of murder in aid of racketeering cannot be tried as an adult because the possible sentence would run afoul of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a ...

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Two New Jersey men recently suffered a bit of bad luck during a routine traffic stop in Florence County. On March 29, Ruddy Antonio Iglesia, 35, and Franklin Benjamin Lamtigua, 41, were pulled over for a moving violation on Interstate ...

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