The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud. The court’s 6-2 ruling Wednesday affirms an appeals court decision against investment banker Francis Lorenzo over ...
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Read More »Prosecutors say a 53-year-old man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing his nephew on Christmas Day 2016 as he tried to intervene in an argument. Authorities say Roger Grate shot Darrell Doctor in the head on ...
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Read More »South Carolina prison officials say unclear court orders and ambiguous directions have left prison workers confused about how much time offenders should serve. The division director of classification and inmate records at the state Department of Corrections, Joette Scarborough, told ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply troubled by a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding African-American jurors, the Supreme Court seemed in broad agreement on March 20 that a black death row inmate’s conviction and death sentence at his sixth murder trial could ...
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Read More »It should be obvious that, to try a case properly, you have to do a lot of planning and can’t just make it up as you go along. It also should be obvious that you can’t possibly carry around ...
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Read More »We’ve all been there. A call comes in. Usually it’s a referral from another lawyer whose name you may or may not recognize—in my case, a referral for employment law matters. The person on the other end of the phone ...
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Read More »By Patrick Hoff The Episcopal Church in South Carolina and The Episcopal Church have filed a petition with the S.C. Supreme Court (.pdf) requesting that the court enforce its August 2017 decision about 29 properties currently held by a breakaway group. The S.C. Supreme ...
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Read More »A suspended South Carolina sheriff faces more charges. A Greenville County grand jury has indicted Will Lewis on six charges of misconduct and one of obstruction of justice. The latest misconduct charges include intimidating witnesses in a State Law Enforcement ...
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Read More »The 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was tipping off just as Lawyers Weekly went to press, so Sidebar won’t embarrass itself by publishing its picks for the Final Four, but March is also the time of year for ...
Read More »Attorneys working in matrimonial law have to deal with the equitable distribution of various properties, both real and personal. Sometimes working out the distribution is not too involved, but sometimes there can be a hitch in determining which party ...
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