The Federal Trade Commission announced that it has entered into a consent order which settles charges it had brought against the South Carolina State Board of Dentistry in 2003 alleging unfair trade practices. The FTC alleged in 2001 that the Board of Dentistry had unlawfully restrained competition by requiring a…
State newspaper reporter, Joy Woodson, has reported that Mihaela Sinzianu Livingston, a Romanian exchange teacher, has alleged in a lawsuit that she lost her job because she fell in love, got married, and decided to stay in America. Ms. Livingston is suing FACES, a Columbia-based academic and cultural teaching exchange…
Associated press writer Jim Davenport reported that the South Carolina legislature has agreed on a plan whereby employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on insurance premiums will face fines and prison time. The new legislation also calls for new standards on how injuries are reported…
The Associated press has reported that accidents from roller shoes are far more common than previously thought, contributing to roughly 1,600 emergency-room visits last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday. The target market for the wheeled shoes is mostly children and they are the ones being injured.…
A lawsuit which was initiated as a result of a falling-out between the Charleston-based creator of “Flip This House” and the cable network that carried the reality television series will go forward. U.S. District Court Judge C. Weston Houck ruled on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 that there is enough evidence…
A poignant editorial by the Reverend Wiley B. Cooper was published in The State newspaper on Friday, May 25, 2007. Rev. Cooper is a native of South Carolina, eligible for membership in both the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the Confederacy, and the grandson of a…
The Charleston School of Law, South Carolina’s new law school, graduated its first class of 186 students on Saturday, May 19,2007. Charleston School of Law Dean Richard Gershon said, ” These are our pioneers.” The law school opened in 2004 and is located in downtown Charleston. The school received its…
The New York Times reported last week that a diethylene glycol, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze, can also kill people. If the syrupy poison is ingested, first the kidneys fail, and then the central nervous system begins to fail. Paralysis can result which makes breathing difficult and…
Columbia police officer, David M. Dechane, has been named the South Carolina Bar’s Law Related Education Citizen of the Year. This award was created by the S.C. Bar to recognize people outside traditional legal and education fields who support the development of students into responsible citizens. Officer Dechane has been…
The 40-foot hand-cranked Confederate submarine, “The H.L. Hunley “sank the Union blockade ship,” Housatonic” by ramming it with a spar with a black powder charge, sinking the vessel on Feb. 17, 1864. The Confederate submarine also sank and was finally located in 1995. It was raised five years later and…