South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs. The ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina Senate agreed Wednesday to move forward with a proposal to split up the state’s health and environmental affairs agency, though lawmakers indicated they may still have some details left to hammer out. Senators spent ...

A grand jury has issued a total of 22 new indictments against suspended attorneys Cory Fleming and Alex Murdaugh, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced in a March 16 press release. The new charges—four against Murdaugh and 18 against ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas said Tuesday that he will not run for reelection this year after running the chamber for eight years, opening up a big leadership gap in a chamber the Republican has worked ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina House approved the state’s $14 billion budget in one day with little debate over big ticket items and knocking aside smaller changes like stricter abortion rules or worries about whether a state health card ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina House will begin debate on the state’s $14 billion budget Monday, but one billion-dollar bit of business probably won’t get settled until well into the spring. With an unprecedented amount of money to spend ...

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By Jeff Trueman BridgeTower Media Newswires After many months of pandemic-related lockdown, we now know that Zoom works for mediation. Simply stated, it’s efficient. When participants don’t have to travel to a physical location in order to mediate a satisfactory ...

By Haynes Hansen and Eric Magnuson BridgeTower Media Newswires The brief is done. You spent years working up the case, and months thinking through the legal arguments, chasing down every last citation as you wrote the appellate brief. Now it’s ...

KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — An elected court clerk in a small South Carolina county gave herself a $30,000 raise last year using federal money set aside to improve collecting child support, a newspaper reported, The county attorney isn’t sure what ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday narrowed the reach of a federal law that strengthens penalties for career criminals found to illegally have a gun. The high court was ruling in the case of a man a lower ...

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