South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A former casting director for the television series “Mr. Mercedes” says she wasn’t paid for overtime work for the show that filmed in South Carolina and aired on Audience. Taylor Campbell says in a recently filed federal lawsuit that she ...

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A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a class action settlement requiring the South Carolina Department of Corrections to test inmates for Hepatitis C and treat them for the chronic disease. U.S. District Judge Margaret Seymour gave the agreement ...

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Dominion Energy, the owner of the former South Carolina Electric and Gas Corp., will pay $192.5 million to settle a federal class action lawsuit by shareholders who accused the electric and gas company of fraud after its failure to build ...

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The same truck drivers and employees who distribute beer to bars and retailers throughout South Carolina will now be distributing awareness about human trafficking alongside their brews.  Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the participation of the Beer Wholesalers Association at ...

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Dozens of cameras have been installed in a South Carolina city to help curb crime in the months after surveillance video helped capture a suspect in a man’s shooting death. At least 125 cameras were donated to be set up ...

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A former South Carolina sheriff pleaded guilty Wednesday to committing crimes while in office, becoming the 10th sheriff to do so in the past decade. But like four of those other former lawmen, he won’t spend any time in prison. ...

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The Federal Reserve took a hatchet to interest rates in 2019, bringing down the cost of borrowing for almost anyone in need of credit. Those cuts are now making their way into legal rate of interest on money judgments in ...

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Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd announced that David Caughran, Elliot Condon, Joseph Spate and Phillips Workman have all joined the firm. Caughran joins the public finance team in the firm’s Charleston office. Condon, also in the firm’s Charleston office, practices products liability ...

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A South Carolina man is accused of killing his 14-month-old son by slamming him into a wall and throwing him into furniture. Ashton Robert Clark, 24, has been charged with homicide by child abuse, news outlets report. He initially was ...

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  The South Carolina Supreme Court has expanded the Digital Courtroom Recorder Program to additional courts in the state in an effort to address a shortage of traditional court reporters in the state’s judicial branch. The program currently operates in ...

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