South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Karen Natzel BridgeTower Media Newswires There’s considerable consternation around the “Great Resignation.” This past spring, we witnessed job openings at an unprecedented 9.3 million. In August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that “4.3 million Americans, or 2.9 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Tuesday about a Texas death row inmate’s demand that his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution. Executions in Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned whether a prosecutor offered to show photos of five dead children to a jury to unfairly upset them so they would sentence the children’s father to death. The photos ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear appeals from two doctors who were convicted of illegally distributing pain medication after writing thousands of prescriptions in short periods. The court will take up the case of Xiulu Ruan ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struggled Monday with whether to allow a lawsuit by Muslim men claiming religious bias by the FBI to go forward despite the government’s objection that doing so could reveal national security secrets. The case ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) — Authorities in Greenville are looking at the possibility of buying and renovating a large building as a new home for its police and fire departments and municipal court. Greeneville’s city spokesperson says in an emailed new release that the ...

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the July 2021 South Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the South Carolina Supreme Court to recognize those who received a scaled ...

Dallas C. Meacham has joined Turner Padget as an associate in the firm’s litigation practice group in its Greenville office. Meacham joins the firm’s insurance industry team to assist in handling matters in state and federal venues, at both the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Businesses in South Carolina won’t see a hike in their unemployment insurance taxes next year, state officials announced Thursday. Those employer tax rates will either drop or stay the same in 2022, workforce officials said at ...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican state officials reacted with swift rebukes Thursday to President Joe Biden’s newly detailed mandate for private employers to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, threatening a wave of lawsuits and other actions to ...

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