The South Carolina Supreme Court has assigned retired Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal to oversee all pretrial motions and other pretrial matters involving litigation addressing the customer reimbursement due to abandonment of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Project. Toal replaces 16th ...
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Read More »The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an order that creates a homeless court program in Florence. The order, issued at the request of the South Carolina Access to Justice Commission, establishes the Florence Homeless Court Program in the City ...
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Read More »Columbia law firm Callison Tighe is one of 15 businesses nationwide receiving the 2019 Freedom Award from the United States Department of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. It is the country’s highest recognition for businesses who ...
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Read More »Authorities say the arrest of a South Carolina prison food service employee on a contraband charge appears to be related to an inmate who escaped for about 14 hours. Arrest warrants say 58-year-old Orbadella Garrett was taken into custody Sunday ...
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Read More »BLENHEIM, S.C. (AP) — A deputy in South Carolina has been arrested and is no longer working after authorities said he threw a middle school student into a patrol car and hitting his head. Arrests warrants from the State Law ...
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Read More »By Maura Mazurowski On Jan. 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer offer updates or security support for Windows 7. As the end-of-life date draws near, the company announced that customers will “pay dearly” if they continue using Windows 7 software. ...
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Read More »By Heather Cobun BridgeTower Media Newswires Attorneys for a Baltimore law firm are asking a federal appeals court to prohibit prosecutors from reviewing “tens of thousands” of electronic files seized from a partner’s office earlier this year. The Baltimore Sun ...
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Read More »A promising new technology that can unlock the identity of long-sought criminal suspects and free the wrongly convicted is raising questions about whether it might become too intrusive. In Virginia, a judge recently considered whether creation of a DNA ...
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Read More »A small group of South Carolina senators held a daylong hearing Tuesday on whether South Carolina should join about a half-dozen other states in banning nearly all abortions , but the Southern state might not be ready to follow some ...
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Read More »Turner Padget has announced the formation of a government relations and public policy service with the addition of attorneys Edward J. Schafer and James F. Knox in the firm’s Columbia office. Schafer joins the firm as of counsel and is ...
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