South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Christopher Clay Olson has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the firm’s commercial litigation and construction practice groups in its Charleston office. James W. Saxton Jr. also joins the firm as an associate. Saxton focuses his practice ...

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Facebook has asked a court to dismiss state and federal antitrust lawsuits that accuse it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The social media giant said March 10 that the complaints “do not credibly claim” that its ...

Bob Morgan, former leader of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, has been named the new CEO of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce. Morgan, who led the Charlotte chamber from 2005-2018, was most recently public affairs director at Charlotte law firm ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Merrick Garland on Wednesday to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post as President Joe Biden has vowed to restore the Justice ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A bill that would make South Carolina the 48th state in the nation to pass a hate crime law started its journey through the Statehouse on Tuesday. The proposal to allow harsher penalties for killings, assaults, stalking, ...

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By Kelli Sullivan Over the last year, 27 states, and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted some type of legislation granting full or limited immunity to various types of entities for claims that arise from COVID-19. Eight ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — State prosecutors have charged 100 people in what they said was the largest number of defendants ever indicted in one drug operation in South Carolina courts. Ten of those charged are currently state prison inmates who used ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge’s order on Friday to extend a temporary restraining order. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis’ extension runs through March 19. Her original order, ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — Two of the prosecutors named as defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions have argued that a temporary restraining order halting the law from being enacted should be dissolved because the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona in a key case that could make it harder to challenge a raft of other voting measures Republicans have proposed following last year’s elections. All ...