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Probate judge puts her energies where her heart is
ANDERSON (AP) – Every day when Martha Newton leaves her office, she makes a call to the Rags to Riches Thrift Store on the U.S. 29 Bypass near the intersection with the Belton-Honea Path Highway. She wants to know how many fried apple pies and loaves of banana nut bread the workers have sold for […]
Summerville approves business immigration measure
SUMMERVILLE (AP) – A South Carolina town has approved an ordinance to require businesses to determine the immigration status of employees. Multiple media outlets reported that Summerville Town Council voted 5-1 Oct. 13 to approve the law. Businesses could lose their license or face fines for violations. The original ordinance would also have required landlords […]
Long-awaited study of Charleston store fire coming
CHARLESTON (AP) – A long-awaited federal study of a fire that killed nine South Carolina firefighters in a furniture store more than three years ago will be released later this month. The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., has been studying the June 2007 blaze that gutted the Sofa Super […]
4 plead guilty in 2008 death of Horry County man
CONWAY (AP) – Four people have pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the shooting death of an Horry County man two years ago. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported two men and two women were each sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison in the robbery and death of 54-year-old Robert Rabon of Aynor. […]
McMaster: Judge right to let health-care suit proceed
COLUMBIA (AP) – More than six months after leading a charge to challenge the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul, South Carolina’s top prosecutor on Thursday praised a federal judge’s decision to allow a lawsuit over portions of the package to go to trial. “This is a complete victory for the states,” Attorney General […]
ACLU sues jail over Bible policy
COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina jail was sued last week over its policy barring inmates from having any reading material other than the Bible. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the policy on behalf of Prison Legal News, a monthly journal on prison law. The 16-page complaint says […]
Attorney: Greene was just flirting with student
COLUMBIA (AP) — Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene was just trying to flirt with a teenage college student when he allegedly showed her pornography in a campus computer lab, his attorney said Thursday in the first indication of his planned defense. “He was attempting to flirt with a young lady who had no interest in […]
Federal judge dismisses states' gun-rights suit
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge in Montana has dismissed a lawsuit by gun-rights advocates and states seeking freedom from federal gun laws, a move that the advocates promised to appeal. The decision last week from U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy was expected since his magistrate a month ago recommended tossing out the lawsuit […]
SC coroners must investigate deaths from medical errors
SPARTANBURG (AP) — A new state law designed to notify families of those who die within 24 hours of hospital admittance and invasive surgery is increasing the call volume for some coroner’s investigators. The Ann S. Perdue Independent Autopsy Fairness Act was named for a Chesterfield County woman who died in 2004 due to a […]
Prison chief eyes new cell phone intercept system
COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s prison director still wants a system to jam all cell phone signals in prison, but said Sept. 30 that he is testing a less intrusive technology to block signals from phones illegally smuggled to inmates. Jon Ozmint, a leader in a push by prisoner directors to jam phones that can […]
Berkeley deputy in bikini OK but not sudsy patrol car
MONCKS CORNER (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy in a bikini at a car wash is OK, but you’d better not show pictures of that sudsy patrol car. Pictures posted on Facebook of a charity car wash cost a Moncks Corner police officer his job earlier this week. But multiple media outlets reported there […]
Ex-Lee County sheriff indicted on 47 new charges
BISHOPVILLE (AP) — Former Lee County Sheriff E.J. Melvin has been indicted on 47 new charges, including racketeering and money laundering, and prosecutors said last week the allegations represent more layers of a complex drug conspiracy case. They say Melvin’s cooperation with drug dealers dates to early 2001, the year he was sworn in as […]
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- High court justices cross the line of propriety
- High court’s term was rough on big business
- The flip side of generative AI in law and how to address it
- The fight for equal educational opportunity continues
- Letter From The Editor – Working from Home
- NLRB joins FTC in taking aim at non-competes
- Supreme Court leaves key internet protection untouched
- US Supreme Court bites back at parody’s use of the First Amendment
- My goal: Provide the information that you need now
- Case study: North Carolina courts provide guidance on scope, limitations of attorney-client privilege
- A Different Ode to Pro Bono Work
- N.C. Bar Association embraces homophobia
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