CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available. We share what we found below.

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LegalReader

MAY 6, 2022

South Carolina has very strict laws on drunk driving.

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The Estrin Report

JUNE 26, 2023

However, while big law firms are laying off due to overstaffing from the pandemic, the most active firms hiring today are in the mid-size, boutique and personal injury firms. Lately, I have noticed a slowdown in the time law firms take to interview and select candidates. The good candidates go quickly, sometimes as fast as in 10 days.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. United States , a case involving federal sentencing laws that – at least according to the defendant – turns on whether the word “and” in the federal law at issue means “and” or instead “or.”

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Legal Research is Easy

JULY 8, 2020

Here in South Carolina, there is a publication called South Carolina Lawyers Weekly at sclawyersweekly.com). Great periodical, it is, full of stories about lawyer and law and legal things. When the matter finally came before the South Carolina Supreme Court, Justice John W. Well, guess what?!?

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Legal Research is Easy

MARCH 5, 2020

For those not in the know, I'm no longer with the county law library helping the legions of pro se litigants, attorneys, judges, senators, representatives who would walk through the front door. Nope, now I work at a law school trying to help in-grateful students understand the "how" of legal research.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

What you have to know is that in South Carolina, the statute of limitations in personal injury cases is three years from the date of the injury.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. Law Practice Management hour, not CLE.

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Legal Research is Easy

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

T he other day as I was doing my Librarian thing, I happened to stop and talk with a student here at the law school. Officially, Am Jur Trials is an encyclopedic guide to the modern practices, techniques, and tactics used in preparing and trying cases with model programs for handling all types of litigation. Seems she was freezing.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Good thing that there was a law librarian nearby who could witness her acrobatics and then blog at out it to the world. As it turns out, South Carolina, where Young Lady happened to trip and tear up her knees, has it's own Torts Claim Act called, not surprisingly, the South Carolina Tort Claims Act under § 15-78-10.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a ruling by a federal district court holding that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – that is, it sorted voters based primarily on their race.

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Paralegal Mentor

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Because the other employees in a law firm will not tolerate inadequate writing skills, all paralegals need to learn to write in a concise and precise manner with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Before Law School, she worked as a paralegal for a number of years and was the first CLA in the state of Nebraska.

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Patently O

AUGUST 8, 2024

The brief was filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that focuses largely on protecting private property against government intrusion and regulation. South Carolina Coastal Council , 505 U.S. After a nearly four-year process, the Corps denied the application with prejudice in 2016.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 3, 2021

times higher than in February, “Cities like Charleston, South Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville; and Phoenix saw large increases in entirely new subscribers, and growth has also come from smaller cities where the company had not done as much business, like Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee.” .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

Over the last five years, cities, counties, and states across the country have sued fossil fuel companies alleging that the companies violated state law in marketing their products as safe. Second are cases that allege the fossil fuel company activities violate state consumer protection laws. On April 24, the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ).

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LegalReader

JANUARY 27, 2022

It is important that your lawyer gets involved immediately and gets the police report and the driver’s blood tests to verify their BAC level.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolinas governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. From picketing the Carolina Theatre, as a skinny college kid protesting segregation, to arguing in front of the Supreme Court, Walter exemplified the best of what we can be.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. In my view, the law violates the First Amendment and should be scuttled by the legislature. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle. South Carolina v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

In her 10-page dissent, Sotomayor complained that the decision by the court of appeals not to allow Johnson to pursue the firing squad as an alternative method of execution punishes him “for failing to anticipate significant changes in the law brought about by Bucklew.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). We also have a potential duel case out of Aiken, South Carolina from one year ago. Indeed, he is liable for injured rescuers.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). We also have a potential duel case out of Aiken, South Carolina from one year ago. Indeed, he is liable for injured rescuers.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We’re not a law enforcement or compliance agency.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The exchange occurred as Taub was being questioned on the meaning of “sectarian” under the law. Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

South Carolina that in cases where a capital defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, due process entitles the defendant to inform the jury that he will be ineligible for parole if not sentenced to death. Arizona applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. The tweet came in response to South Carolina GOP Sen. Nebraska (1925), the Court struck down a state law prohibiting instruction in German. Ironically, the informed consent rule in the law has been traced to its rise in the medical profession.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The court also declined without comment to take up two other petitions , seeking review of a ruling by a federal appeals court that invalidated on First Amendment grounds a North Carolina law that allows employers to sue employees who make undercover video or audio recordings. South Carolina sought Supreme Court review in May 2022.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Here is the column: As the fight over election reform heats up in Congress, the White House is ramping up the rhetoric, declaring that President Biden and Vice President Harris are “incensed by the anti-voter laws that are trampling on our constitutional principles.” You cannot protect one by negating the other. In McPherson v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 5, 2022

No national data exists; but as of 2019, 13 states in the hottest regions of the country do not provide universal air conditioning in state prisons: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Victories in Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Conservation Law Foundation v. Derivative Litigation , No. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. filed Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

James Clyburn of South Carolina made a key endorsement, backing then-candidate Joe Biden in the state’s Democratic primary. Michelle Childs, a federal trial judge in South Carolina, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina. Share In 2020, Rep.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 13, 2018

They enlightened me on how we talk about the access to justice topic, what it is, who is affected, and why this conversation is so important to the rule of law. Here is a picture of me with my best legal aid friend, Rusty from South Carolina Legal Services at the LTN table, totally excited, as you can tell! Let me set the scene.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

cities slightly increased their law enforcement spending as a percentage of their combined 2021 budgets. In July 2020, in response to President Donald Trump sending camouflaged and heavily armed federal law enforcement to Portland, Oregon, to arrest protesters and protect federal property, Pelosi tweeted , “Unidentified storm troopers.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). However, many areas of Europe have good Samaritan laws protecting such rescuers. He could also face civil liability from the boy’s family.

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