September 30, 2009
Yesterday, South Carolina issued an AMBER alert for two-year-old Geomari Young after his father, Geonaldo R. Young, alleged beat Geomari’s mother (Geonaldo’s ex-girlfriend) and “kidnapped”
Family law’s massive sociological experiment(s)
September 27, 2009
Last night, while driving to the birthday party of my friends’ son, I was speaking on the phone to one of my oldest and dearest
September 25, 2009
We live in a culture that increasingly confuses ethical obligations with legal ones. For example, I believe I am ethically obligated to help out those
September 25, 2009
It does not take a cynic to note a high correlation between people becoming involved in custody cases and “finding religion.” So long as judges confuse
September 25, 2009
Any bride-to-be who expects that her intended will be satisfied with once-a-week vanilla sex is either too young or naive to get married. We men
South Carolina Supreme Court allows writ of certiorari to challenge discovery order
September 22, 2009
The September 21, 2009 Supreme Court opinion in Hollman v. Woolfson, 384 S.C. 571, 683 S.E.2d 495 (2009) approves an unusual use of a writ of certiorari:
Maybe they shouldn’t hear voting rights cases?
September 22, 2009
The September 21, 2009 Supreme Court opinion in Financial Federal v. Brown, 384 S.C. 555, 683 S.E.2d 486 (2009) contains an anomaly: Justice Beatty’s “majority” opinion received
Orange juice and toast: Creating maximum damage from partial answers in depositions
September 21, 2009
If I am deposing a hostile witness or opposing party, I often start with an innocuous line of questioning I call “orange juice and toast.”
