THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals Steven K. Alukonis, Appellant/Respondent, v. Wayne K. Smith, Jr., Respondent/Appellant. Appellate Case No. 2017-001441 Appeal From Spartanburg County Phillip K. Sinclair, Family Court Judge Opinion No. 5745 Heard February 11, 2020 – Filed July 22, 2020 REVERSED AND …

South Carolina state Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Bonneau, center, talks about a report about $1.8 billion found in an account created by the state Treasurer's Office as state Sen. Mike Fanning, D-Great ...

Shortly after 10 p.m. on June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from his property in Islandton, South Carolina, to report that he had found his 22-year-old son Paul and his wife Maggie, 52, murdered.

Petitioner Jason Dickey appealed a court of appeals' decision that affirmed his conviction of voluntary manslaughter. Petitioner worked as a security guard at an apartment building when on the night of April 29, 2004, an intoxicated water balloon toss among residents turned into a heated argument. The prank so angered visitor Joshua Boot that he …

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South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis turns to his staff during a state Senate hearing into how $1.8 billion ended up in an account without anyone knowing where it came from or where it went on ...

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Argued March 2, 1992-Decided June 29, 1992. In 1986, petitioner Lucas bought two residential lots on a South Carolina barrier island, intending to build single-family homes such as those on the immediately adjacent parcels. At that time, Lucas's lots were not subject to the State's coastal zone building permit requirements.

Facts of the case. 187 black students were convicted in a magistrate's court of breach of the peace for peacefully assembling at the South Carolina State Government. Their purpose was to submit a protest of grievances to the citizens of South Carolina, and to the legislative bodies of South Carolina.

Description Date Docket # BROOKS v. BENORE LOGISTICS SYSTEMS INC (2024) April 10, 2024: Appellate Case No. 2022-000271 Opinion No. 28198: STATE v. COLLINS (2024)

Issues: (1) Whether the district court erred when it failed to apply the presumption of good faith and to holistically analyze South Carolina Congressional District 1 and the South Carolina General Assembly's intent; (2) whether the district court erred in failing to enforce the alternative-map requirement in this circumstantial case; (3) whether …

On October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a voting rights case – Alexander v.South Carolina Conference of the NAACP – that will decide whether the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature deliberately considered race when drawing new congressional district maps after the 2020 census. In January, a three …

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South Carolina Code of Laws Unannotated. Title 27 - Property and Conveyances. CHAPTER 37. ... In case any tenant is wrongfully dispossessed he may have an action for damages against the landlord. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 41-114; 1952 Code Section 41-114; 1946 (44) 2584. SECTION 27-37-150.

For almost three years, the South Carolina Judicial Department has been working with LTCourtTech, a Thompson Reuters' Company, to customize its nationally recognized C-Track Appellate Court Case Management System to meet the needs of the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the South Carolina Court of Appeals.C-Track has now been fully …

Title 17 - Criminal Procedures. CHAPTER 13. Arrest, Process, Searches and Seizures. SECTION 17-13-10. Circumstances when any person may arrest a felon or thief. Upon (a) view of a felony committed, (b) certain information that a felony has been committed or (c) view of a larceny committed, any person may arrest the felon or thief and take him ...

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If you are looking for information about cases filed with the South Carolina Appellate Court, you can use the online case search tool provided by sccourts. You can search by …

Facts of the case. In 1986, Lucas bought two residential lots on the Isle of Palms, a South Carolina barrier island. He intended to build single-family homes as on the adjacent lots. In 1988, the state legislature enacted a law which barred Lucas from erecting permanent habitable structures on his land. ... South Carolina Coast Council." Oyez ...

South Carolina contends that the cases cited above are precedents only for the authority of the judiciary to strike down state statutes and procedures – that to allow an exercise of this authority by Congress would be to rob the courts of their rightful constitutional role. On the contrary, §2 of the Fifteenth Amendment expressly declares ...

Supreme Court. General: The Supreme Court is the highest court in South Carolina. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices who are elected to ten year terms by the General Assembly. The terms of the justices are staggered and a justice may be reelected to any number of terms. Appellate and Original Jurisdiction:

In summary, there were about 17,721 homicides in South Carolina from 1980-2019. Since then, approximately 13,853 of those cases have been solved or seen resolution, leaving the state with only around 3,868 unsolved homicides remaining in South Carolina. The advances that have been made are mainly due to advances in forensic …

It helps to understand how the South Carolina state court system works when you're trying to find court records. The South Carolina trial court system consists of Circuit Courts, Family Courts, Probate Courts, Magistrates Courts, and Municipal Courts . Circuit Courts have general jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases and generally ...

Overview: The South Carolina Appellate Court Public Index is a public access site for the South Carolina Appellate Court Case Management System. This site provides access to information regarding cases filed with the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the South Carolina Court of Appeals. On this site, a user is able to view events and other ...

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The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation determined that the AFFF cases filed involved common questions of law and fact such that centralization of the cases was appropriate. Weighing a number of factors, the Judicial Panel selected the District of South Carolina as the forum for this litigation. These cases have been assigned to the ...

The suit alleged that South Carolina violated these principles. After a two-week trial, a panel of three federal judges unanimously concluded that South Carolina's congressional map is unconstitutional. The court found that the legislature imposed a racial target of 17% in Congressional District 1—the coastal district from which tens of ...

The South Carolina case concerned a law passed by the state legislature in 2021, which banned abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks of pregnancy, with ...

Westminster, SC 29693 (864) 647-4705: Party name: John Dalen: Attorneys for Respondent: William M. Blitch Jr. South Carolina Attorney General's Office Post Office Box 11549 Columbia, SC 29211 [email protected] (803) …

Decisions by the South Carolina Supreme Court are final unless the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review an appeal of a decision. The middle level of the South Carolina state court system is the South Carolina Court of Appeals. This court consists of nine judges, who may hear cases in three-judge panels or as a whole.