South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina prosecutor has announced that he won’t file charges against the white police officer who fatally shot a Black teenager who pointed a gun at the officer as he ran away. Josh Ruffin, 17, was an ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — One of South Carolina’s most powerful senators survived a runoff challenge on June 23. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Luke Rankin won the Republican nomination for his Horry County seat after being pushed to a runoff by financial ...

In the past few weeks, a number of class action lawsuits have been filed against financial institutions by alleged agents of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) borrowers seeking payment of a portion of the PPP processing fees. It appears this is ...

The latest chapter in a dispute over church property between the national Episcopal Church and a group of breakaway churches has been handed down by a Dorchester County Circuit Court judge. The dispute over ownership of church properties, which include ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A former state lawmaker is now officially the top federal prosecutor in South Carolina, after the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Peter McCoy to be the U.S. Attorney for South Carolina on June 18. President Donald Trump nominated ...

Turner Padget announced the addition of three new attorneys. Benjamin E. Calhoun joins as an associate in the firm’s workplace litigation practice group in Columbia. Hood Dawson joins as an associate in its insurance and products liability practice group in ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — The Godfather of Soul’s dying wish to help educate needy children is a big step closer to being fulfilled, now that South Carolina’s Supreme Court — wading into a 14-year-old legal saga yet again — has ruled ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants. Immigrants who are part of the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) will retain their protection from ...

  Grand juries are back in session, but trial juries are out until August, at the earliest. South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty had raised the possibility of resuming jury trials as soon as July when he sent ...

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A Mount Pleasant attorney who published a highly offensive Facebook post about the death of George Floyd has been suspended from the practice of law by the South Carolina Supreme Court. David Traywick, a personal injury attorney, published the post ...