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Barry Scheck: Stunning new case highlights how race bias corrupts juries

By Barry Scheck Last month, Glenn Ford, an African-American man, walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary after spending thirty years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. One of the most important contributing factors to his death sentence? Racial discrimination in the selection of his all-white jury. In a community that is

So You’ve Become a Patient Safety Statistic – Now What?

I often speak to people who have become victims of patient harm. They, or maybe a loved one, went to the hospital, nursing home or doctor’s office and suffered a preventable injury, infection or medical error. Many times they’re seriously disabled. Or they’re calling me because their family member or loved one was killed.

Scoppe: South Carolina should learn from Safety-Kleen debacle

COLUMBIA, SC — THE YEAR was 1994, and South Carolina had acquired a well-earned reputation as the nation’s dump, hosting massive nuclear and hazardous waste landfills and a medical-waste incinerator that accepted waste from around the country, when the DHEC board did something extraordinary: It ordered Laidlaw Environmental Systems to post a $133 million cash

Texting While Driving

Texting and driving can be a deadly mistake. For one story of how texting affected this family’s life, watch the video, provided by Zero Fatalities, here. .

Goal should be justice, not spin

A little less than one year ago, The Post and Courier published a letter I wrote in response to an article concerning the acquittal of Tyrone Winslow Jr. Mr. Winslow sat in jail for two years waiting on a murder trial that “by all accounts, never should have happened.” Mr. Winslow was finally freed when

4th circuit says Occupy can sue Gov. Haley over arrests

Occupy can sue Gov. Haley over arrests By: The Associated Press December 16, 2013 COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t immune from being sued by Occupy Columbia protesters who were kicked off the Statehouse grounds in 2011, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The Republican governor could theoretically appeal the decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit

$15 Million Awarded in Highway Collision

$42 Million Given Back for over 8,000 Investors

$1.05 Million Largest Nursing Home Jury Award in Spartanburg History

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

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