South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina newspaper is suing a school district over officials’ lack of transparency in their handling of the resignation of a popular superintendent last month. The State newspaper in Columbia reports that it filed the ...

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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — A manufacturer of cages for inmate transport vans has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of a South Carolina mental health patient who drowned during 2018’s Hurricane Florence while trapped inside a sheriff’s department ...

Tagged with: Hurricane Florence

COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina prosecutor decided Monday not to charge two jail employees who stunned a mentally ill Black man 10 times and kneeled on his back until he stopped breathing, calling the guards’ videotaped actions “damning,” but ...

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A man who was committed to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health as a sexually violent predator didn’t have a due process right to a competency hearing before he was committed, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ...

A company that placed the winning bid for a piece of property at a tax sale in York County won’t be able to use the quiet title doctrine or claim unjust enrichment in order to void its own title to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police Thursday released the 911 call where a distraught lawyer reported that he found his wife and son shot to death at their South Carolina home six weeks after the still unsolved killings. The seven-minute ...

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Richland County Council has approved a settlement agreement with the S.C. Department of Revenue in a long-running dispute involving the county’s Transportation Penny Tax program. The settlement requires no payment by the county to the revenue department, but the county will ...

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CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — An Orangeburg man who shot at two police officers during a chase will spend 20 years in a South Carolina prison and then 10 years in a federal prison, authorities said Wednesday. Eugene Jonathon James, 23, ...

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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man whose charges were dropped after police body camera footage showed he did not fight an officer who attacked him is suing the city of Rock Hill and ...

Tagged with: Defamation

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion settlement covering thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids across the U.S., two ...

Tagged with: opioids