South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Jessica Markham  BridgeTower Media Newswires   BALTIMORE, MD — When I first started practicing, an older lawyer once told me that I could never be friends with lawyers. He said that I could be friendly and I should be courteous, ...

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by Paul Mark Sandler  BridgeTower Media Newswires  BALTIMORE, MD — The practice of law has a rich heritage. Lawyers throughout history have contributed to the development of the rule of law, and to our present day system of justice. Representation ...

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The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights South Carolina, and Justice 360 has sued the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice and its executive director, alleging “nightmarish” conditions for the more than 250 children detained by the agency.   ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A restaurant in South Carolina has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 to nearly 100 workers who were forced to share their tips, the U.S. Department of Labor has ruled. The tip pool at 167 ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s road agency says the cost to build a long-debated completion of the Interstate 526 loop has tripled to more than $2.3 billion because of rising costs of land and construction.  The state’s share of ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Investigators cracked a 2015 killing after determining one of the suspects was worried the victim was going to testify against him at trial, Greenville County deputies said.  Brandon Rashard Barksdale, 30, is already serving time in ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his classmate in a South Carolina middle school hallway should be tried as an adult on a murder charge, prosecutors told a judge Monday.  The prosecutors’ request to move ...

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has denied bond for a former “American Idol” contestant accused of killing a man by barreling into him with his pickup truck after using a marijuana vaping device.  Country music singer Caleb ...

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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A message left in chalk outside Sen. Susan Collins’ home urged her to support the Democratic effort to codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that established a constitutional right to an abortion nationwide. Bangor police ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has approved a second round of refunds for customers of a utility that poured billions of dollars into two nuclear power plants that never produced a watt of power.  About $61 million ...

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