12+ hour, 13+ min ago  (280+ words) South Carolina Lawyers Weekly staff//April 28, 2026// South Carolina will remain one of the few states in the country without a hate crime law after the state Senate failed to advance even a proposal to study such legislation, according to a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (59+ words) The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading artificial intelligence firm, Open AI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive's personal diary. "This is the only chance we have to get…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (56+ words) The South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed murder and attempted murder convictions after finding the defendant was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when he was forced to proceed pro se without timely and adequate warnings about the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (58+ words) Federal authorities on April 23 charged a Special Forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol's Maduro with using inside information about the raid to win roughly $400, 000 through bets placed on online prediction markets. Prosecutors accused Gannon Ken Van…...

13+ hour, 44+ min ago  (125+ words) South Carolina Lawyers Weekly US Supreme Court hears claims Cisco aided Chinese human rights abuses - 9th Circuit revived lawsuit alleging Cisco aided Chinese crackdown - Trump administration supports Cisco's position on aiding and abetting liability When the client brings Chat GPT to…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1274+ words) Charles D. Hatley//April 27, 2026// Not too long ago, clients would walk into an initial consultation with a family law attorney with a few questions, maybe a printout from a legal website or news article they had read, or at most some…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (96+ words) South Carolina Lawyers Weekly staff//April 27, 2026// South Carolina has received $63, 095, 224. 77 as its share of the annual tobacco Master Settlement Agreement payment, Attorney General Alan Wilson announced, according to a press release from his office. Since the settlement was signed in…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (57+ words) Supreme Court sides with Dana Nessel on Michigan Line 5 case'South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Supreme Court sides with Dana Nessel on Michigan Line 5 case - U. S. Supreme Court rules unanimously for Michigan AG Dana Nessel - Enbridge missed 30-day deadline to remove Line 5 case…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (609+ words) The'South'Carolina'General Assembly has passed a bill requiring public school students to use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex. Critics say the move unfairly targets transgender students. A public K-12 school district or public university that does not comply with…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (172+ words) Pennsylvania's Constitution grants the fundamental right to reproductive autonomy, a state court ruled April 20 in a long-running challenge to the commonwealth's ban on Medicaid subsidies for abortion. In its 4-3 ruling in favor of a group of Pennsylvania women's health clinics,…...