South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As House Democrats quickly move forward with impeachment proceedings, the likelihood grows that Donald Trump will become the third president to face a Senate trial to determine whether he should be removed ...

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North Carolina judges on Monday blocked the state’s congressional map from being used in the 2020 elections, ruling that voters had a strong likelihood of winning a lawsuit that argued Republicans unlawfully manipulated district lines for partisan gain. The panel ...

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A South Carolina sheriff found guilty of misconduct for using his power and office to push a personal assistant to have sex with him was sentenced Friday to the maximum of a year in prison. Former Greenville County Sheriff Will ...

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A South Carolina police chief who abruptly resigned for “personal” reasons is now charged with misconduct in office and grand larceny. The Times & Democrat reports the charges against former Eutawville police Chief Steven Daniel Holloway were filed after a ...

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Imagine this: You’re a lawyer representing one of many defendants in a new lawsuit. You receive an email from the plaintiff’s lawyers, addressed to you as well as counsel for 19 other defendants. All that’s in the email is a ...

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By Dawn R. Solowey and Lynn A. Kappelman As trial lawyers representing employers, we have learned a great deal over time about how jurors tend to think about employment cases. Yet watching a jury deliberate during a mock trial — ...

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Three judges on a federal appeals panel appeared inclined Wednesday to reject arguments that President Donald Trump’s tax returns can’t be given to a New York grand jury because he is immune from state criminal law — even if he ...

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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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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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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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