The University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law,also known as South Carolina Law School,is a professional school within the University of South Carolina. Founded in 1867,it is the only public and non-profit law school in South Carolina. It has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1925 and a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1924.
George Bell Timmerman Jr. was an American politician and World War II veteran who served as the 105th governor of South Carolina from 1955 to 1959. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the state's 76th lieutenant governor from 1947 to 1955.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina is the highest court in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The court is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices.
Ernest Adolphus Finney Jr. was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court since the Reconstruction Era. He spent the last years of his life in Sumter,South Carolina. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Franklin J. Moses Sr. was an attorney,planter,politician and judge in South Carolina. He served as a state senator from 1841 to 1866,when he was elected to the circuit court. He was elected as Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1868 during the Reconstruction era. In 1876 he was asked to rule on a challenge to election returns in the hotly disputed gubernatorial campaign,eventually won by Democrat Wade Hampton and ending Republican domination in the state.
William Byrd Traxler Jr. is an American jurist who currently serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
John Rutledge was an American Founding Father,politician,and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. Additionally,he served as the first president of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Charles Albert Woods was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Carolina since a federal court order took effect on November 20,2014. Another court ruling on November 18 had ordered the state to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. Following the 2014 ruling of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bostic v. Schaefer,which found Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and set precedent on every state in the circuit,one judge accepted marriage license applications from same-sex couples until the South Carolina Supreme Court,in response to a request by the Attorney General,ordered him to stop. A federal district court ruled South Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on November 12,with implementation of that decision stayed until noon on November 20. The first same-sex wedding ceremony was held on November 19.
The South Carolina Circuit Court is the state court of general jurisdiction of the U.S. state of South Carolina. It consists of a civil division and a criminal division.
Costa Pleicones is an American jurist who served as the chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He has served on the court since being elected in February 2000 to replace Justice Toal. He was sworn in on March 29,2000. Before being elected to the court,his judicial experience included serving on the courts for the city of Columbia and as a Circuit Court Judge. On May 27,2015,Justice Pleicones was elected to replace Chief Justice Jean Toal. His term began January 1,2016,and his investiture as Chief Justice of South Carolina took place on January 7,2016.
South Carolina government and politics covers the three different branches of government,as well as the state constitution,law enforcement agencies,federal representation,state finances,and state taxes. South Carolina is a state in the United States of America and was the eighth admitted to the Union. The state of South Carolina was preceded by the Crown Colony of South Carolina,a constitutional monarchy which was overthrown during the American Revolution. Presently,South Carolina's government is formed as a representative democracy.
Ammiel J. Willard was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Albany,New York in 1822. He studied law under Willis Hall,the attorney-general of New York,before being made assistant counsel of New York City in 1848.
Archie Lee Chandler was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He attended The Citadel,but had to miss his senior year to join the military during World War II. He settled in Darlington,South Carolina to practice law,and was elected from there to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1972. In 1976,he was made a trial court judge,a position he held until being elevated to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1984 and became the chief justice in 1994. His election to be the new chief justice took place on February 23,1994. He was sworn in on June 22,1994.
Cameron Bruce Littlejohn was a chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He served as an associate justice on the same court from 1967 to 1984.
William Luther Rhodes,Jr. (1918-1986) was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Rhodes was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1975. He was sworn in on August 14,1975,to replace Justice Lewis as an associate justice. Served in South Carolina House of Representatives from 1951 to 1960m as chairman of ways and means,and as Judge South Carolina Fourteenth Judicial Circuit from 1960 to 1975. He was reelected to a full ten-year term in 1978.
Meagan Aileen Flynn is an American judge who is the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. She previously served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2014 to 2017. Flynn was appointed to the state’s supreme court by the Governor Kate Brown in March 2017.
David Michael Pascoe is an American lawyer serving as the First Circuit Solicitor in the state of South Carolina since 2005. The First Circuit comprises Dorchester,Calhoun,and Orangeburg counties. In 2016,Pascoe won a Supreme Court case against the South Carolina Attorney General where the Attorney General attempted to remove Pascoe as the special prosecutor in a corruption probe involving the General Assembly. Pascoe oversaw the investigation and secured convictions on five powerful South Carolina General Assembly members that included the House speaker,President Pro Tem of the Senate,Chairman of the House Judiciary,and two former House Majority Leaders.
David Garrison Hill is a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals from 2017 to 2023.
