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- ↑ Dave Munday, 'My whole life I wanted to be just like my father', Post & Courier (September 3, 2014).
- ↑ Board of Advisors, Charleston School of Law (last accessed December 10, 2017). Archived 2020-08-14 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Stanglin, Doug (December 7, 2017). "Ex-S.C. cop gets 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed black man". USA Today.
- ↑ Alan Blinder (December 7, 2017). "White ex-cop gets 20 years for Walter Scott slaying". New York Times.
- ↑ Note, Recent Case: District of South Carolina Holds the Every Exposure Theory Insufficient to Demonstrate Specific Causation Even if Legal Conclusions Are Scientifically Sound , 131 Harv. L. Rev. 658 (2017).
- ↑ "131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25.
- ↑ https://sclawyersweekly.com/news/2018/08/06/judge-nixes-forcing-charleston-history-test-on-tour-guides/ South Carolina Lawyers Weekly.August 6, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- ↑ https://sclawyersweekly.com/news/2018/08/17/judge-halts-trump-rule-that-suspended-clean-water-protection/ South Carolina Lawyers Weekly.August 17, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- ↑ https://www.advocate.com/youth/2020/3/11/anti-lgbtq-sex-ed-law-struck-down-south-carolina-0 Advocate. March 11, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
