South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Sep 12, 2023

Antitrust trial centers of Google search engine’s power

The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google‘s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway. The legal attack will swing into […]

Feb 10, 2016

Justice Department: 3 tax service offices inflated refunds

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Justice Department has accused three Columbia-area Liberty Tax Service franchises of deliberately preparing false federal income tax returns to increase their customers’ refunds. News outlets […]

Jan 27, 2016

Justice Dept. targeting collusion in heir-tracing industry

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating an industry that seeks out heirs to the recently deceased and is looking into whether price-fixing and other anti-competitive practices have ripped […]

Apr 24, 2015

Lynch to bring prosecutor’s perspective to Justice Dept.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general Loretta Lynch assumes a portfolio that includes fighting terrorism, preventing cyberattacks and dealing with police and race — issues strikingly similar to what she’s […]

Mar 20, 2015

Judge: Sanctions possible in Obama immigration court case

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A federal judge who has blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action suggested on Thursday that he could order sanctions against the Justice Department if he […]

Aug 21, 2014

Justice Dept. announces $17B settlement with BofA

WASHINGTON — The government has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America over its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis, […]

Apr 23, 2014

Justice Department to consider clemency for prisoners after 10 years served

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will begin considering clemency applications from nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal history and have already served more […]

May 31, 2013

Protect reporters, and protect everyone

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has come out strong for passing a federal shield law. And maybe that’s the one good thing – the only good thing – to come out of the recent controversy over the Justice Department’s seizure of phone records at The Associated Press and the surveillance of Fox News reporter James Rosen.