In an opinion released Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court found that the state’s proviso does not prohibit the institution of a mask mandate at the University of South Carolina.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has blocked two executions that had been scheduled this month under the state’s recently revised capital punishment law. The high court issued the order Wednesday to pause execution plans for inmates Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court says a state law requiring sex offenders to register for life without prior judicial review is unconstitutional.
In a statement released Thursday, Chief Justice Donald Beatty of the South Carolina Supreme Court announced that in-person appearances will be suspended beginning Monday, January 11. It is unclear right now how long this suspension will last.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the governor’s plan to spend $32 million in federal coronavirus aid on grants to help parents afford K-12 private school unconstitutional.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Friday morning, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing opening arguments in a lawsuit against Governor Henry McMaster’s decision to use CARES Act funds on private school vouchers. In July, Governor McMaster announced his plan to use $32 million in COVID-19 federal relief funds on these vouchers. The funding was blocked after Orangeburg County attorney Skyler Hutto…
Don Beatty COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The state Supreme Court’s senior associate justice is the only person running for the court’s top job. A statement Monday from the Judicial Merit Selection Commission shows Don Beatty of Spartanburg is the only person running for chief justice. Republicans had sought another candidate. Beatty would become South Carolina’s second black chief justice since…
