Posts Tagged ‘Charleston Post & Courier’
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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A review of the excellent news reporting from Allyson Bird at the Charleston Post and Courier, regarding the adoption case involving two year-old, Veronica, her prospective adoptive parents, Matt and Melanie Capobianco, and her Cherokee birth father, Dusten Brown, demonstrates a misunderstanding when a “best interests of the child” standard is applicable. For custody cases [...]
Tags: Adoption, Capobianco, Charleston Post & Courier, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Nikki Haley, Paternity
Posted in Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 7 Comments »
Posted Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct
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I find myself in an awkward position in which my friend, Charleston Post & Courier reporter Glenn Smith, is investigating and writing about a colleague and former office mate, Citadel General Counsel, Mark C. Brandenburg. Glenn’s an outstanding reporter, investigating and breaking numerous important local stories that are too small to interest the national media. [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Glenn Smith, Mark C. Brandenburg, Rules of Professional Conduct, The Citadel
Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct | 5 Comments »
Posted Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Fyodor Dostoevsky said “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” What do articles like this excellent Glenn Smith piece in Sunday’s Charleston Post & Courier, documenting the death of a young man in a South Carolina prison, or the recent United States Supreme Court opinion in Brown v. [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Glenn Smith, Popular Culture
Posted in Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | No Comments »
Posted Sunday, November 14th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Anyone who practices family law–and anyone who simply observes our culture–sees the overwhelming correlation between human misery and folks having children they are not emotionally or financially capable of parenting. Reducing teen pregnancy would ameliorate a range of social problems. Two recent articles in our local newspaper, the Charleston Post & Courier, highlight the issues [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Popular Culture, Sex
Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 3 Comments »
Posted Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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One of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s more astute observations about capitalism was “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” The recent agreement by British post-collegiate, post-punk band The Gang of Four[1] to license their song “Natural’s Not in It” to Microsoft to sell Kinect, its new motion sensitive controller for [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Kinect, Microsoft, Popular Culture, The Gang of Four
Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 11 Comments »
Posted Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
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My first year of law school the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Deshaney v. Winnebago Cty. Soc. Servs. Dept., 489 U.S. 189 (1989), rejected a claim that negligence of a child protective service agency to protect a child from an abusive caregiver was a violation of the due process clause of the [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, Jurisprudence, New York Times, United States Supreme Court
Posted in Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public | 9 Comments »
Posted Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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The first in a series on Child Protective Services in South Carolina was published in today’s Charleston Post & Courier: State of Abuse. This initial piece accurately describes what I see in family court abuse and neglect cases. Subsequent articles in the series can be found here: DSS not meeting requirements; here: The guardians; and here: Norton center [...]
Tags: Adam Parker, Charleston Post & Courier, Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, Guardian ad litem
Posted in Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
