South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Wednesday that it secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a nuclear security site in Nevada months ago despite the state’s protests. The Justice Department notified a federal judge in Reno that ...

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A South Carolina man has been charged in connection with a decadesold rape investigation in North Carolina. News outlets report 52-year-old Anthony Keith Grant, of North Charleston, was arrested Monday. Fayetteville police spokesman Shawn Strepay says Grant is charged in ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court has extended the deadline for South Carolina Bar members who are federal employees to pay license fees. On Jan. 25, Chief Justice Donald Beatty issued an order granting such employees an additional 30 days after ...

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The University of South Carolina School of Law will host a theatrical reenactment of the life of Clarence Darrow, the trial lawyer from Ohio best known for representing an evolution advocate in the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The play will ...

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  At a time when the #MeToo movement is dominating headlines, everyone is talking about sexual harassment — around the water cooler, around the family table, and online. Media coverage of harassment is pervasive, and #MeToo posts regularly go viral ...

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Lawyers across the country are waiting to see how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on an issue at the intersection of tax law and trusts and estates. The justices on Jan. 11 agreed to answer whether the Due Process ...

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A man who spent more than a decade on the board overseeing South Carolina roads has agreed to plead guilty to tampering with evidence in a federal investigation. The State newspaper uncovered the plea agreement to the felony signed Jan. ...

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The federal government agreed Wednesday to allow federally funded foster care agencies in South Carolina to deny services to same-sex or non-Christian couples. The waiver issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will allow Greenville’s Miracle Hill ...

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A federal judge has barred the government from moving forward with seismic permitting and halted litigation surrounding the permits during the government shutdown. The Trump administration ruled to allow companies to perform seismic air gun surveying to determine whether oil ...

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The South Carolina Law Review has announced that its 2019 symposium will examine the implications of the opioid epidemic on the practice of health care and tort law, as well as legislative and law enforcement efforts in response to the ...

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