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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. Sen. Darline Graham’s polling lead over Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews for South Carolina’s seat in the U.S. Senate seat was again narrow in a sampling released Sunday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – No deaths have been reported from a 69-vehicle pileup and all lanes of Interstate 95 in South Carolina near the community of Santee were reopened about 6 a.m. Friday morning.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — An appeals court trimmed, but left largely intact, a judge’s $29.5 million verdict against a South Carolina nursing home accused of repeatedly mistreating a woman who died emaciated and covered in wounds and bed sores.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Ten Democrats, including two women, were missing in action Wednesday as the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate heard testimony and questioned witnesses on the protection of women’s sports.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - A U.K. company at the center of an international fight over jurisdiction for asbestos lawsuits has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by South Carolina’s highest court allowing a personal injury lawyer to serve as court-appointed receiver over one of its subsidiaries.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster supports the proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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