South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus. The school, Georgia Gwinnett College, has ...

Tagged with: Freedom of Speech

Thomas G. Sinclair has joined Merline & Meacham in Greenville. Sinclair’s areas of practice include taxation, estate planning, trusts and estates, probate, and employee benefits. Carson Shealy has joined Baker, Ravenel & Bender in Columbia as an associate. His practice ...

By Jeffrey Harradine BridgeTower Media Newswires We all know more than we did at the outset of this pandemic, including businesses seeking legal redress for business disruption, breach of contract, insurance protection and business loss. Enough time has passed to ...

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By Matthew E. Christoph This winter, two groups visit a company on the same day: the Girl Scouts selling delicious cookies, and a labor union handing out flyers and soliciting employees.  The company has a carefully drafted non-solicitation policy, but ...

Tagged with: Girl Scouts

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s top prosecutor is facing a disciplinary complaint alleging he backed a “false and frivolous” lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, accused of helping to fan the flame of insurrection that ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and the South Carolina Ports Authority have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing the waterfront union at the port of illegally working with a national maritime alliance to pressure ocean ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s 2021 Legislative session opens with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and plenty of issues still looming that got set aside when the pandemic started last spring and brought most of the General Assembly’s work to ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s top jurist has again called off in-person hearings, saying he’s doing so due to the “ongoing increase” in COVID-19 cases across the state. “It is prudent to once again make changes to the operations of ...

Tagged with: coronavirus

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will introduce Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general on Thursday along with three others he has selected for senior Justice Department positions to “restore the independence” of the agency and faith in ...

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Comedian and actor Kevin Hart will avoid liability in a suit brought by former business partners who claimed that their video game launch was torpedoed by Hart’s admission of an extramarital affair, following a decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit ...

Tagged with: Kevin Hart