A yearlong national survey showed a “disturbing” amount of discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing would-be renters and led to the filing of nine federal fair-housing administrative complaints by advocacy groups…
A South Carolina prosecutor agrees that a 14-year-old black youth convicted and executed in 1944 for killing two white girls didn’t get a fair trial by today’s standards. But he…
Thirteen of South Carolina’s 16 state prosecutors are seeking the recusal of South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Donald Beatty from all criminal appeals for remarks he allegedly made at a…
Clarified: A group created by a private equity fund now owns three private law schools, but its planned acquisition of a fourth law school has spurred objections from alumni and…
Corrected: A Supreme Court ruling in June for the adoptive parents of the child known as Baby Veronica hasn’t ended the legal dispute over her custody.
Julia Phillips told authorities she had been bound with duct tape and dragged behind a brick wall by the same assailant who beat, shot and strangled a 79-year-old lawyer to…
Julia Phillips may not have acted alone. But she was part of a plot to kill her longtime boyfriend, South Carolina attorney and York Mayor Melvin Roberts, 79, who was…
The feds announced indictments this week against attorneys in two different states who are accused in claimed multimillion-dollar frauds concerning their law practices.
In Illinois, attorney, radio talk-show host, author…
A prominent South Carolina lawyer accused of extorting over a $1 million from his clients pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud in federal court in Columbia, one of 10 charges…
The adoptive parents of a baby born with both male and female genitalia claim the state of South Carolina violated their child’s constitutional rights by subjecting the child to sex-reassignment…
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