South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The rising number of law enforcement agencies using body cameras is presenting a proverbial double-edged sword for public defenders in the Carolinas. On one hand, footage taken during arrests and other incidents provide them with a chest-eye view of ...

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  The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office will pay a $104,000 settlement to family who was injured after their car was hit head-on by a sheriff’s deputy speeding toward a call for service. A settlement agreement filed in Greenville County Circuit ...

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  America’s opioid crisis has hit South Carolina particularly hard. The number of people in the state suffering from opioid addictions can only be guessed at, but the state saw 749 opioid overdose deaths in 2017, and from 2006 to ...

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  A South Carolina law that extends attorney-client privilege to communications between a fiduciary and their lawyer applies regardless of whether the person seeking access to the communication is a beneficiary or a co-fiduciary, a federal judge has ruled in ...

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  For more than a decade, the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been dealing with issues stemming from inmates having access to contraband cell phones. Just last month, an inmate convicted of running a drug ring from prison while ...

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  A woman who was burned in a propane cloud explosion at work in 2016 has confidentially settled a negligent installation and maintenance lawsuit for $7.5 million, her attorneys report. Ryan Langley and Charles Hodge of Hodge & Langley Law ...

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  Homelessness is a conspicuous problem in America, but many homeless people try hard to make themselves as invisible as possible. Some of them have mental health or addiction issues. Others are veterans who couldn’t find their place in society ...

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The law is no joking matter. But comedians may have a few lessons that lawyers can learn. Instructors at the comedy industry’s equivalent of the Ivy League certainly think so, and some have developed a healthy side trade teaching their ...

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As representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified before members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 24 regarding recent illnesses connected to vaping products, the parallels with another ...

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  Customers in an industrial park on unincorporated land in Laurens County will have a choice of utility providers after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that one city could not make itself a monopoly provider beyond its borders ...

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