Siding with South Carolina legislators in a budgetary power play with the state’s chief executive, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered Gov. Mark Sanford to accept $700 million in…
A federal judge in South Carolina has granted an injunction sought by Craigslist Inc. in a declaratory judgment action against the state’s attorney general.
Threatened with potential criminal prosecution over its role in allegedly promoting prostitution through Internet ads posted by third parties on its website, Craiglist Inc. has responded with a pre-emptive strike.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily barred some foreclosures in the state to give homeowners more time to seek loan modifications under a federal program.
International publicity about a published photograph in which Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps is seen taking a hit off what appears to be a marijuana pipe—as Phelps himself has admitted…
After finishing up a business trip to New York for a deposition, a South Carolina attorney decided to take an earlier plane home today before predicted bad weather arrived. But…
One of the oldest law firms in Charlotte, N.C., announced yesterday that it is laying off 13 attorneys and another 15 staff members to cope with a difficult economy.
Unhappy that a female lawyer had been appointed to represent him in an appeal, a South Carolina inmate wrote to various officials seeking to have a different attorney appointed to…
Seven South Carolina magistrates have been sanctioned or suspended by the state supreme court since January, raising questions about why so many have landed in trouble.
A former South Carolina judge who called crack cocaine addiction a “black man’s disease” has agreed to stay off the bench and consented to a public reprimand.
A former employee who stole $35,000 from two South Carolina law firms in separate theft schemes was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty yesterday.
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