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(Legal Newsline) – South Carolina’s supreme court is looking to further prevent law firms from being partially owned by profit-driven non-lawyers, an increasingly controversial arrangement currently allowed in Arizona, Utah and D.C.
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(The Center Square) – Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy are offering Virginia customers more bill relief and promising new jobs and investment as they seek approval for their proposed merger.
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(The Center Square) – South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster supports the proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
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(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvania-based free market think tank released its latest report grading state public sector labor laws on Tuesday, tracking how government unions have worked to advance pro-union legislation at the state level in the wake of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.
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(Legal Newsline) – The companies challenging how asbestos lawsuits are handled in South Carolina plan to take the issue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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(The Center Square) – North Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards apologized to family and staff from the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday ahead of being censured for ethics complaints on his behavior.
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(The Center Square) – Child-safety measures for children and $246.9 million from a $17.1 billion settlement are coming to South Carolina from Meta, owner of the Facebook and Instagram platforms.
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(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Darline Graham will have the place of her brother Lindsey on the Nov. 3 ballot, having defeated U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate special Republican primary runoff on Tuesday.
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(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, trailing fiscally throughout his campaign against Democrat Roy Cooper, is getting a portion of the gap filled in by the Senate Leadership Fund led by his party’s campaign group and others aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.
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(The Center Square) - South Carolina leads the nation in home ownership for young people, according to a new report.
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(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, carries the endorsement of second-term President Donald Trump against U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate special Republican primary runoff on Tuesday.
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(The Center Square) – Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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