South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Patrick Hoff The Episcopal Church in South Carolina and The Episcopal Church have filed a petition with the S.C. Supreme Court (.pdf) requesting that the court enforce its August 2017 decision about 29 properties currently held by a breakaway group. The S.C. Supreme ...

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A suspended South Carolina sheriff faces more charges. A Greenville County grand jury has indicted Will Lewis on six charges of misconduct and one of obstruction of justice. The latest misconduct charges include intimidating witnesses in a State Law Enforcement ...

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The 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was tipping off just as Lawyers Weekly went to press, so Sidebar won’t embarrass itself by publishing its picks for the Final Four, but March is also the time of year for ...

  Attorneys working in matrimonial law have to deal with the equitable distribution of various properties, both real and personal. Sometimes working out the distribution is not too involved, but sometimes there can be a hitch in determining which party ...

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A pain management clinic with facilities in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina is accused of “liberally” prescribing unnecessary opioid painkillers. News outlets report the U.S. Department of Justice joined three lawsuits this month that accuse the company, Pain Management ...

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The state of Nevada is asking a federal appeals court to order the U.S. government to remove weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly trucked to a site near Las Vegas last year until the court decides whether the move was legal. ...

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  At the 1977 dedication of a building bearing his name in Washington, D.C., former vice president Hubert Humphrey said: “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; ...

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Two former inmates who say they were severely beaten at an overcrowded South Carolina jail are suing the sheriff’s office. The Greenville News reports Brett Ferguson and Adam Brodsky blame the longstanding overcrowding issues for the attacks, and said Pickens ...

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A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children is an unconstitutional race-based intrusion on state powers that has caused families to be “literally torn apart,” an attorney told a ...

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  A recent opportunity to testify as an expert witness in a big legal malpractice trial inspired this question: “How is the standard of care for legal malpractice related to or affected by risk management and claim avoidance strategies that ...

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