SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a ruling by a federal district court holding that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – that is, it sorted voters based primarily on their race. 1 deadline. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in case involving racial gerrymandering claims against South Carolina’s congressional map. John Gore argued on behalf of South Carolina Senate President Thomas Alexander, who is the defendant in the case.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2021

The South Carolina Senate voted 32-11 in favor of expanding permissible ways of executing death row inmates. South Carolina is one of nine states that still has an electric chair and would become just the fifth state to approve of firing squads.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2021

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill Monday allowing those with concealed weapons permits to carry their firearms openly in public. In a statement, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said , “the Open Carry with Training Act does not change the law on who can carry a firearm.

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2022

The South Carolina Supreme Court Wednesday blocked the state from committing its first firing squad execution. To counteract this issue the South Carolina legislature passed Bill 200 in 2021, which made the electric chair the default method for execution. South Carolina currently has a death row population of 37.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The post South Carolina Governor Plans To Axe Gay Marriage Citing Compelling Legal Doctrine Of ‘Our Traditions’ appeared first on Above the Law. The gloves are well and truly off now, kids.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The US District Court for the District of South Carolina blocked the state’s mask mandate ban on Tuesday, determining that the mandate discriminates against children with disabilities. Proviso 1.108 , implemented in May of this year, placed a ban on mandating mask-wearing for teachers and school children.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2021

A federal district court judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat abortion act. ” The post Federal court blocks South Carolina fetal heartbeat abortion ban appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Prison officials in the South Carolina Department of Corrections previously said they couldn’t get access to lethal injection drugs, and have yet to put together a group of individuals willing to be a firing squad, leaving the 109-year-old electric chair as the only option to carry out capital punishment sentences, the Associated Press reports. .

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. The recent ruling in South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. While the developments in NAACP v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill on Thursday that prohibits an abortion if a physician detects a fetal heartbeat. The General Assembly passed the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act with a 79-35 vote. South Carolina is not the first state to adopt a similar bill.

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JURIST

MAY 7, 2024

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The report, entitled Democracy Defended , specifically focused on voter experiences in seven of the nation’s southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. The report highlights four top issues.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

After going 12 years without a single execution, lawmakers in South Carolina are amping up their search for a legal path to obtain lethal injection drugs to carry out the death penalty, Jeffery Collins reports for WSOC-TV.

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HowAppealing

MAY 26, 2023

“SC state judge blocks new 6-week abortion ban while legal challenge plays out”: Alexander Thompson of The Post and Courier of Columbia, South Carolina has this report. ” The post “SC state judge blocks new 6-week abortion ban while legal challenge plays out” appeared first on How Appealing. .”

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

A South Carolina medical management services company that accused its former CEO of $5.3 million worth of misconduct but won just $22,000 on its claims was back in Delaware on Wednesday before the state's highest court, arguing that it should not have to pay his legal expenses.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

McMaster signs ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban into law as legal challenge looms”: Emily Bohatch of The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report. “SC Gov. ” And Jeffrey Collins of The Associated Press reports that “ SC governor signs abortion ban; Planned Parenthood sues.”

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Mondaq

JANUARY 14, 2022

The South Carolina Supreme Court issued two decisions late in 2021 that may impact employers' and co-workers' potential liability in litigation arising from an employee's discharge.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2023

A terrible tragedy has befallen the University of South Carolina after sophomore Nicholas Anthony Donofrio , 20, was shot and killed on the front porch of a house in Columbia. Legally, the family may be faced with few options. South Carolina is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state.

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JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2021

.” Roof was convicted of myriad federal charges and sentenced to death in 2017 for the 2015 massacre of nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. In January 2020, Roof appealed his conviction and sentence from the US District Court for the District of South Carolina.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

TOLEDO, OH—As reports show talent wars are threatening law firms, Shumaker has attracted and hired a dozen new attorneys to join its teams in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

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Law 360

MAY 3, 2024

A former general counsel testified Thursday in the criminal fraud trial of former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch that the company's chief operating officer didn't want a whistleblower's claims to get into court, and a South Carolina man and his companies must pay the SEC nearly $24.9

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The issue is now for the individual states to set their own abortion restrictions, if any, creating legal diversity around the issue. On Monday, a South Carolina woman, Taylor Shelton, sued the state after she was denied an abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2024

This week, the South Carolina Supreme Court handed down a major ruling in Cruce v. The South Carolina Supreme Court said that it is not: The precedent dealing with the definition of “public official” is imprecise, but “it cannot be thought to include all public employees.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The petition to challenge the mandate was submitted by the Republican Attorney Generals from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah. The post US Fifth Circuit appeals court imposes injunction on business vaccine mandate appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

James Clyburn of South Carolina made a key endorsement, backing then-candidate Joe Biden in the state’s Democratic primary. Michelle Childs, a federal trial judge in South Carolina, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires. Her legal background differs in some respects from the D.C.-centric

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 28, 2021

.” Emily Bohatch of The State of Columbia, South Carolina reports that “ SC Senate passes ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion ban bill after female members decry it.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

The OCR launched investigations in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah to determine each state’s compliance with § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 , which protects students with disabilities against discrimination.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Attorneys for the federal government argued in a petition on Wednesday that Dylann Roof’s death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist murders of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should stand and doesn’t require reconsideration by the U.S. Justice Department’s legal team.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Tennessee , North Dakota , Louisiana , Alabama and South Carolina have all faced legal challenges to proposed maps based on racial gerrymandering. Georgia is not the only state facing allegations of racial gerrymandering ahead of the 2024 US General Election.

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NCBA

MAY 3, 2023

By the Communications Committee Jennifer is a Certified Paralegal in North Carolina and South Carolina and has been a paralegal for 25 years. She also received her Advanced Certified Paralegal Certification in Trial Practice, Land Use, and Real Property through the National Association of Legal Assistants.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2023

The lawsuit, brought by Planned Parenthood, challenged three Idaho abortion laws: A near-total abortion ban passed by the state legislature in 2020; A 2021 prohibition on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected; and.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Massachusetts and South Carolina are the only two states remaining where the violation is not illegal. Some legal advocates cautioned that the measure the House embraced was too broadly written and could unintentionally sweep people into a new criminal statute.

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LLRX

JULY 24, 2023

Cooke , Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina, identifies the significant and socially charged work of librarians who are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battles raging across the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

In several cases, legally imposed delays and bureaucratic barriers to care have caused patients to require additional surgeries, continue life-threatening pregnancies, experience painful side effects, and fear legal retaliation. North Dakota , however, recently passed one of the strictest bans in the nation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia joined Yost in the lawsuit. . ” The post Ohio AG sues for reinstatement of Trump-era abortion referral ban appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The state of Tennessee is joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.

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The Crime Report

MAY 21, 2021

Two South Carolina death row inmates have decided to sue the state, calling newly signed legislation requiring them by law to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad for their execution unconstitutional because lethal injection was the main method of execution when they were sentenced, reports NPR.

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