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16 Apr 2008, 4:20 am
" Burgess pled guilty to a federal crack charge carrying 10-year mandatory minimum sentence, but that mandatory minimum sentence was doubled to 20 years based on a prior South Carolina misdemeanor drug conviction that carried a maximum sentence of two years. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 5:55 pm
John Nichols wrote a great article for The South Carolina Lawyer Bulletin for Spring 2008 discussing the admissibility of expert's opinions pursuant to Rule 702, and the lack of necessity for South Carolina to adopt the federal standard described as Daubert for the infamous 1993 decision Daubert v. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 6:34 pm
For the US Supreme Court, the jumbled South Carolina opinions were "ambiguous" and "difficult to discern", but in the South Carolina Circuit Court, just one day later, all was suddenly "clear. [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 5:47 pm
[Note: For background to this post, please read its predecessor here.]After the Motion to Recuse and Vacate discussed in the previous post, the petition for rehearing heaps on many more reasons why the South Carolina Supreme Court should place no confidence in its divided result in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina case. [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 5:47 pm
[Note: For background to this post, please read its predecessor here.]After the Motion to Recuse and Vacate discussed in the previous post, the petition for rehearing heaps on many more reasons why the South Carolina Supreme Court should place no confidence in its divided result in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina case. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 8:00 am by Brian A. Comer
ComerThis case brief involves an action brought by South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster against a pharmaceutical company, captioned State v. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 4:14 pm
The reason the South Carolina (or the Texas) federal court will stay the action as filed is so that the state court action, which began earlier, may finish first. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:39 pm
 The deputation  issued the following statement:Due to the actions of General Convention, the South Carolina Deputation has concluded that we cannot continue with business as usual. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 4:23 am by Howard Friedman
A lawsuit was filed Friday by Americans United for Separation of Church and State on behalf of a Catholic woman challenging actions by the federal government and the state of South Carolina that permit foster-care placement agencies to use religious criteria for approval of foster care families. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 5:02 am by Brian A. Comer
“After the judge makes a determination as to damages, we will consider our options,” Panico said in his statement.The case is State of South Carolina v. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 4:58 am by Gregory Forman
Rodgers, 131 S.Ct. 2507 (2011), the United States Supreme Court found South Carolina’s methods for support enforcement violated due process. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 9:19 am by Gregory Forman
A long line of United States Supreme Court cases interpreting the liberty provision of the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution shield fit parents from the state intruding upon their parental decision making. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 4:35 am by Joel R. Brandes
He assured Mother that he was only going to travel to South Carolina to visit his family for two weeks, after which he would return to Belize with Child, would marry Mother, adopt her son, and then they would all travel to the United States legally as a family. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 6:55 am
A South Carolina federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction barring the state of South Carolina from further advertising, distribution or production of its controversial "I Believe" license plate. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 10:15 am by Shea Denning
Judge Tyson favorably cited the Supreme Court of South Carolina’s refusal in State v. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 4:29 am by Alfred Brophy
Then in the center of the monument is a map of Africa and the United States, which shows some of the places where South Carolina's African Americans' ancestors came from. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 7:09 am
Jones, an 1872 decision by the United States Supreme Court that, among other irrelevant observations (called "obiter dicta", or "things said beside the point"), offered the view that the then-established Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America was hierarchical. [read post]