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Music Mondays: James Brown’s Estate Sells For $90 Million

The Hollywood Lawyer

The contract enshrines The James Brown 2000 Trust’s support for charitable and educational programs like marginalized youth scholarships. Postmortem lawsuits since 2006 have held up the scholarships he wanted to share with children of South Carolina […].

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Congressional redistricting, patent infringement, arbitration, and the Armed Career Criminal Act

SCOTUSBlog

South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. A three-judge district court composed of two district judges and one appellate judge invalidated South Carolina’s congressional District 1 as an impermissible racial gerrymander, concluding that race was the predominant factor in the adoption of the redistricting plan.

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What You Don’t Know About the Paralegal Job Market

The Estrin Report

The worst state for paralegals is South Carolina with an average salary of $36,908 per year. Salary.com) What about contract paralegals? Typical salary for a Contract Paralegal job is above the national average. What city pays paralegals the most? What is the worst state for paralegals?

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Racial Gerrymandering Takes Center Stage as Court Considers Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

310 (1955), the Supreme Court established that “maritime contracts are governed by federal admiralty law when there is an established federal rule, but absent such a rule, state law applies.” Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. , 348 U.S. Alexander v.

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Justices schedule first cases of the 2023-24 term

SCOTUSBlog

South Carolina Conference of the NAACP , the justices will consider a challenge to the congressional redistricting map that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted after the 2020 census. 11) – Whether South Carolina’s congressional redistricting map constitutes an illegal racial gerrymander.

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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

SCOTUSBlog

And when that principle is applied, it contends, the choice-of-law provision in its contract with Raiders Retreat is enforceable. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. The case comes to the Supreme Court as a challenge to one of South Carolina’s seven congressional districts.

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Woman sues South Carolina over 6-week abortion ban after traveling to North Carolina to obtain an aboriton

JURIST

A South Carolina woman, Taylor Shelton, sued the state on Monday after she was denied an abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy. Currently, SB 474 defines fetal heartbeat to be “cardiac activity” with “the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart.” Wade was overturned in 2022.

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