A university did not restrict or chill students’ speech by seeking their response to complaints that they had harassed others. The students, who’d sought and obtained university approval for a campus “Free Speech Event,” met with an official to discuss ...

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The University of South Carolina didn’t violate student groups’ First Amendment rights by making inquiries into harassment allegations after a rally for “free speech,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 16. The appeals court unanimously upheld the ...

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  Billups v. City of Charleston (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-147-17, 28 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:16-cv-00264; D.S.C. Holding: Even though a jury could find that Charleston’s requirement that tour guides pass a test and be licensed is the city’s way ...

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Abbott v. Pastides (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-080-17, 23 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, S.J.) 3:16-cv-00538; D.S.C. Holding: When plaintiffs’ Young Americans for Liberty held a “Free Speech Event” on the University of South Carolina campus – the visual displays for which included ...

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Buxton v. Kurtinitis (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-151-17, 20 pp.) (Floyd, J.) No. 16-1826, July 7, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Motz, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although the director of admissions for a community college radiation therapist program said plaintiff applicant ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has dealt both sides a setback in a free-speech challenge to a tour-guide licensing ordinance in historic Charleston. U.S. District Judge David Norton issued an order allowing the city to still enforce the ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The latest round in the controversy over licensing tour guides in historic cities is scheduled to play out in a federal courtroom in South Carolina. A judge holds a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit challenging Charleston’s ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys say Charleston’s ordinance requiring tour guides to have a license has nothing to do with restricting freedom of speech but is about regulating business in the city. Three people asked a federal judge earlier this ...

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Central Radio Co. v. City of Norfolk, Va. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-019-16, 24 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 13-1996, Jan. 29, 2016; On Remand from USSC; 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit says a city’s enforcement of its sign ordinance violated ...

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The working relationship between the head public defender and chief prosecutor in the state’s 9th Judicial Circuit has generated controversy, several ethics complaints, and now a new bombshell federal lawsuit.

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