South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Mar 10, 2025

Organized thieves challenged by new law

A new state law takes aim at highly organized retailed thieves. Prefiled slightly more than three months ago in the South Carolina House, H. 3523 cleared its final General Assembly […]

Aug 14, 2024

Ex-chief who raided newspaper faces felony obstruction charge

TOPEKA, Kan. — A former Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of […]

Aug 12, 2024

SC joins lawsuit challenging ACA care for Dreamers

South Carolina and fourteen other states filed a federal lawsuit to block a Biden administration rule allowing 100,000 Dreamers access to Affordable Care Act health insurance.

Jul 8, 2024

Kansas Supreme Court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas‘ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, […]

May 30, 2024

SC joins lawsuit challenging climate change claims

South Carolina has joined a coalition suing to oppose five other state’s claims against energy companies over climate change.

Mar 29, 2024

GOP states’ lawsuit challenges student loan repayment plan

TOPEKA, Kan. — A group of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration to block a new student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower […]

Nov 22, 2023

‘Sophisticated foreign cyberattack’ hobbles court system

MISSION, Kan. — Cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access […]

Oct 26, 2023

Ransomware could have taken down state court system

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not […]

Oct 18, 2023

‘Security incident’ takes down courts’ computers

TOPEKA, Kan. — Computer systems for almost all of Kansas‘ courts have been offline for five days because of what officials call a “security incident,” preventing them from accepting electronic […]

Oct 3, 2023

Police chief who led newspaper raid resigns

TOPEKA, Kan. — The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, just days after he was suspended from his post, […]

Aug 30, 2023

Judge: Police must delete copies of newspaper’s wrongly seized files

Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers […]

Aug 18, 2023

Prosecutor: Evidence insufficient to raid newspaper

MARION, Kansas — A police raid that drew national attention to a small Kansas newspaper over threats to press freedoms wasn’t supported by evidence, a prosecutor said Wednesday, as the […]