South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — A white former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man in South Carolina who ran from a traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors ...

Tagged with: police

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s latest law requiring photo identification to cast ballots went on trial on Monday, with attorneys for voters challenging the mandate by arguing it still disproportionately prevents Black residents from carrying out their constitutional right. ...

Tagged with: Voter ID Law

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues ...

Tagged with: U.S.Supreme Court

By JEFFREY COLLINS and MICHELLE LIU Associated Press COLUMBIA (AP) — Thursday marked a key deadline in the 2021 South Carolina General Assembly. It’s called the crossover deadline. Bills that pass the House or the Senate after Thursday will need ...

Tagged with: Open carry

Although we’re still very much in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, an end appears to be in sight. And even though we’re progressing back to some semblance of “normal,” businesses will continue to experience the collateral effects of the ...

Directors and officers should always establish and adhere to policies and procedures in the exercise of corporate governance. Recent decisions have highlighted potential risks and pitfalls for directors and officers of a corporation if good corporate governance is not followed. ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina has moved one step closer to becoming the 48th state in the nation to pass a hate crime law. House representatives gave key approval by a 79-29 vote on April 7 to a proposal to allow harsher ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dismissed a case over former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block critics from his personal Twitter account. The court said on April 5 that there was nothing left to the case after Trump ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A slew of new lawsuits accuse South Carolina prisons officials of negligence and constitutional rights violations in a 2018 riot in which seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen others injured. In the lawsuits, filed ...

Two months after the South Carolina Ports Authority filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the waterfront union of unfair labor practices, the NLRB said the complaint has merit. With the ruling, the Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. ...