South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wary of possible vulnerability to coronavirus-related lawsuits, hundreds of members of South Carolina’s business community are calling on the state’s federal lawmakers to support liability protections they see as vital for ...

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By Courtney Collins To be a fly on a wall during a jury deliberation is perhaps a dream for most attorneys. While on some level this dream can be achieved through jury research, including focus groups and mock trials, the ...

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Citing the rapid increase of COVID-19 infections in the state, South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty has ordered that every person who comes into county and municipal courthouses must wear a mask.  “Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

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By Elizabeth L. Sherwood The just-concluded U.S. Supreme Court term was an eventful one for parochial schools and other religious employers. On June 15, the court held in Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. ____ (2020), that Title VII of ...

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Isaias was forecast to return to hurricane strength Monday before making landfall in the Carolinas, where coastal residents were warned to brace for flooding rains and storm surge. The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a ...

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Ray Stevens has joined Nexsen Pruet in Columbia. Stevens is a former director of the South Carolina Department of Revenue and a former a judge on the South Carolina Administrative Law Court and will assist clients with state and local ...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2005, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow returned from work to find her husband and mother shot dead in the basement of her Chicago home. Investigators initially focused on a White Supremacist ...

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By MICHELLE LIU AP/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State attorneys told a judge Wednesday that South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is withholding pandemic relief funds to the state’s historically Black colleges and universities following a lawsuit over his ...

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(AP) Boeing losses reached $2.4 billion in the second quarter and the company will slow production and cut more jobs as demand for commercial aircraft withers in the pandemic. The losses were far worse than Wall Street expected, as was the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A special South Carolina House committee reviewing all facets of law enforcement from police tactics to forfeiture and sentencing reform is about to meet for the first time. The 18-member House Equitable Justice System and Law ...

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