South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Apr 29, 2026

US Supreme Court guts key provision of Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 29 undermined a key provision of the Voting Rights Act – raising the bar for racial minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory […]

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 […]

Nov 13, 2024

SC files brief in religious charter school case

South Carolina has entered the dispute over whether a religious school can become a charter school. A release from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office says that the state’s […]

May 1, 2024

GOP AGs challenge federal transgender students rule

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender […]

Apr 3, 2024

Assault cases involving LSU players settled

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University and 10 former students who sued the school over alleged mishandling of sexual assault and domestic violence complaints against football players and others […]

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 […]

Feb 16, 2024

Louisiana to consider nitrogen, electrocution for executions

BATON ROGUE, La. — Louisiana‘s infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved […]

Feb 7, 2024

Could court cases sway control of House?

Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court […]

Dec 4, 2023

Judge dismisses environmental racism lawsuit

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a south Louisiana parish of using land use policies to guide industries that pollute into communities with […]

Oct 10, 2023

Judge upholds most serious charges in Greene’s death

FARMERVILLE, La. — A judge delivered a victory Monday to the state prosecution of white Louisiana lawmen in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, allowing the most serious charge […]

Oct 5, 2023

Judge tosses challenge to website age verification law

NEW ORLEANS — An adult entertainment group’s lawsuit against a Louisiana law requiring sexually explicit websites to verify the ages of their viewers was dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge. […]

Sep 29, 2023

5th Circuit blocks Louisiana redistricting hearings

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge’s plan to hold hearings next week to draw up congressional boundary lines giving Louisiana a second majority-Black district was blocked Thursday by a divided […]