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South Carolina judge finds use of firing squad, electric chair cruel and unusual

JURIST

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. After the convictions, South Carolina passed Bill 200 , which changed the default method of execution in the state to electrocution.

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Abortion providers ask South Carolina top court to reconsider its upholding of 6 week ban

JURIST

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic joined two physicians and Greenville Women’s Clinic to file a petition Thursday asking the Supreme Court of South Carolina to reconsider its decision to uphold a strict state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

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On Fighting Personal Injury Cases in Charleston

LegalReader

What you have to know is that in South Carolina, the statute of limitations in personal injury cases is three years from the date of the injury.

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4th Circ. Revives Suit Over Urgent Care Center's Email Search

Law 360

The Fourth Circuit has refused to let a South Carolina urgent care center slip out of a case from a former assistant who alleges her former bosses broke federal privacy statutes by searching through hundreds of her personal emails for evidence to use in a trade secrets suit that had followed her out the door.

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Proposing Locations for Southeast Regional Office

Patently O

The statute requires that it be located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Arkansas. I would automatically rule-out Virginia and North Carolina as too close to the PTO HQ; and also rule-out Arkansas as too close to the Dallas Office.

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Kentucky’s big bet and Monsanto’s Roundup warnings

SCOTUSBlog

In 2011, after 60 years in which the statute did not lead to a reported decision, Kentucky sued the operators of PokerStars, an online poker platform, to recover the combined poker losses of Kentucky citizens. A Kentucky state court awarded Kentucky $870 million, calculated as three times $290 million in losses. Issues : (1) Whether the U.S.

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Christian school renews effort to expand religious freedom over employment

SCOTUSBlog

Farmer 22-787 Issue : Whether a state waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another state by operating in the state under a corporate registration statute with a sue-and-be-sued clause. Murco Wall Products, Inc. Alexander v.