The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is working with attorneys general from 47 states to investigate possible antitrust violations of Facebook’s business practices. A bipartisan group of attorneys general are looking into Facebook’s dominance of social media and the potential ...
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Read More »South Carolina is getting $4,097,718 in a multi-state settlement requiring Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, Inc., to pay for deceptive marketing of transvaginal mesh devices. State Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the state’s share of a nearly $116.9 ...
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Read More »Attorneys who use less than $30 in quarterly PACER fees will have their bills waived beginning in 2020. The current limit is $15 per quarterly access to have fees waived. Users will see the change reflected in their billing statement ...
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Read More »SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man fired a gun at people at random at a South Carolina apartment complex and a tire store. Sumter Police Chief Russel Roark says four people were hit by gunfire Monday morning and ...
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a new poll say U.S. Supreme Court justices base their decisions on the law rather than politics. The Marquette University Law School poll released Monday found 64% of respondents said they ...
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Read More »Charleston School of Law Dean Andy Abrams will retire in May , the school has announced. Abrams will remain on the faculty as dean emeritus and will return to the classroom and resume his teaching on a full-time basis as ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether states can prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to get a job. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Kansas’ appeal of a state court ruling that threw out three ...
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Read More »By Evan H. Krinick BridgeTower Media Newswires Two truisms: 1) smart people do stupid things; and 2) if something seems to be too good to be true, then it is probably not real. The first truism occurs when people forget ...
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Read More »If you’re on social media (or simply don’t live under a rock) then you’re likely savvy to the health trends taking over pop culture. Kale is in and carbs are out. Be sure to hit 10,000 steps per day. Eat ...
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Read More »A South Carolina teen who was 13 years old when he stabbed his mother to death has been sentenced to 23 years in an adult prison for the crime. Miguel Cano apologized at the Greenville County courthouse Monday for the ...
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