Saying that he was required to do so by a legal cap on damages against a government agency, a South Carolina judge has reduced a $1.6 million jury verdict for…
A South Carolina judge has vacated the murder conviction of a 14-year-old black youth who was executed in 1944 after being found guilty by an all-white jury in a one-day…
Security guards in South Carolina have less training than manicurists and animal control officers, yet they have about the same authority as police on private property.
After a U.S. Supreme Court refusal this week to hear appeals from several federal appellate-court rulings that approved same-sex marriage, some observers expected that other states in the same…
The former general counsel for South Carolina State University has been sentenced to six months of probation for failing to report a kickback scheme in which he donated his take…
A lawyer for a murder defendant in South Carolina is asking a judge to order the victim’s mother and other family members to stop posting about the teen’s death on…
Updated: LegalZoom, the purveyor of online interactive self-help legal documents, announced in a press release this week that the South Carolina Supreme Court has approved the company’s…
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