South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA (AP) — A man who spent nearly seven years awaiting trial for murder in South Carolina has been exonerated after testifying in his own defense that he gave police the name and address of ...

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By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA (AP) — If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes — the electric chair or the firing squad. Moore is one of three prisoners on South ...

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By Nicole Black The shift to remote work was an abrupt and unexpected change for most businesses, including law firms. For that reason, it didn’t always go smoothly. However, over time, most legal profession employers were eventually able to work ...

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By Rackham Karlsson Tech companies take notice: The copyrightability of software application programming interfaces, or APIs, is on shaky constitutional ground. Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., the most closely watched copyright case in recent memory, called on the U.S. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to a showdown over abortion in a case that could dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights. With three justices appointed by President Donald Trump part of a 6-3 ...

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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes ...

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By Thomas I. Elkind  For many years, companies have required consumers and employees to sign contracts containing arbitration clauses that prohibit them from filing class action claims and require them to waive jury trials.   The history of how this trend developed ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — Legislation adding a firing squad to South Carolina’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs is headed to the desk of Gov. Henry McMaster. On a routine vote Wednesday, the state Senate concurred with a version ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on ...

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A three-year legal battle centered around allegations of trade secrets theft from Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corp. has been resolved in a $7.9 million settlement that the case’s lead attorney said sends a strong message. Arkansas-based U.S. Compounding Inc. and parent company Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. ...

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