South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Since CARES Act funds are received in the state treasury and distributed through it, those funds are “public funds” within the meaning of S.C. Const. art. XI, § 4. Consequently, the governor may not allocate CARES Act funds to support ...

After the district court stayed a South Carolina witness requirement for mail-in absentee ballots and a panel of the Fourth Circuit stayed the injunction pending appeal, the full Fourth Circuit granted rehearing en banc and vacated the panel’s stay. Background ...

South Carolina’s witness requirement for absentee ballots is once again stayed after a majority of judges on the Fourth Circuit refused to upset the district court order enjoining the requirement. A three-judge panel initially stayed the district court’s order, but ...

A majority of the judges concurred in denying an en banc rehearing of a decision finding the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by requiring students to use bathrooms matching their “biological gender” and refusing to ...

The Gloucester County School Board’s policy requiring students to use bathrooms matching their “biological gender,” and its refusal to amend a student’s records to reflect his gender identity after his transition, were not substantially related to important governmental interests and ...

Although sections of the anti-riot act failed to bear the requisite relation between speech and lawlessness, the convictions of two defendants for violent participation in three white supremacist rallies were affirmed because their conduct fell under the statute’s surviving provisions. ...

Where the Department of Homeland Security’s new definition of “public charge” in the Immigration and Nationality Act, or INA, was permissible, a nonprofit’s challenge to the definition failed because it could not show a likelihood of success on its claim. ...

Where a gun shop lost sales as a result of Maryland’s handgun licensing law, its ability to sell handguns was constrained and the injury could be redressed by a favorable decision, the shop had standing to challenge the statute. It ...

Tour guides in Charleston, South Carolina, are no longer required to pass a written examination, acquire a valid business license that must be renewed annually and pay fees before they can provide tours. The ordinance was struck down on First ...

We improvidently granted the plaintiff-county’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision (The plaintiff-county alleges the defendant-city and the South Carolina Department of Transportation, while engaged in a joint water drainage project, altered the ...