South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Sep 10, 2024

4th Circuit: Duke Energy’s actions were anticompetitive

The 4th Circuit vacated summary judgment for Duke Energy and remanded the lawsuit brought by NTE after evidence showed potentially anticompetitive conduct aimed at excluding NTE from the wholesale power market.

Aug 23, 2024

Boston Marathon bomber seeks judge’s recusal

BOSTON — Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Tsarnaev’s lawyers said during a hearing […]

Oct 9, 2023

Justice rejects GOP call to recuse herself

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote along partisan lines Friday, agreed to hear a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative maps after a newly elected liberal justice […]

Sep 8, 2023

Alito rejects Democrats’ call for recusal in case

WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the […]

Aug 10, 2017

Criminal Practice – No Recusal for Judge’s Stock Ownership

U.S. v. Stone (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-166-17, 19 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 15-4510, Aug. 2, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Hilton, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant cannot overturn her […]

Nov 26, 2013

Swatting the hornets’ nest

S.C. Supreme Court Justice Donald W. Beatty took the ill-advised practice of insulting the host to new heights when he stepped onstage during an annual fall conference for state solicitors […]

Jul 31, 2013

Attorney for NAACP chief asks for new prosecutor

An attorney representing state NAACP President Lonnie Randolph on charges of refusing to pay his dry cleaning bill and fighting with officers says he wants a new prosecutor handling the case.

Jul 18, 2013

Justice Alito’s finances explain his recusals

Justice Samuel Alito bowed out of roughly six dozen matters that came before the Supreme Court in the past 10 months with no explanation. Alito's latest report of his finances clears up the mystery.

May 20, 2011

4th Circuit reinstates visiting attorneys

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated an order in which a federal district judge in South Carolina revoked temporary admission for out-of-state lawyers who had asked the judge to recuse himself. In a case revolving around three Florida lawyers who asserted claims of judicial bias against U.S. Senior District Judge G. Ross Anderson, the lawyers won in Belue v. Leventhal (South Caroli[...]