What part of don’t don’t you understand
August 25, 2011
Friend and colleague Mary Jane (M.J.) Goodwin suggested I blog on the propriety of citing unpublished appellate opinions as legal authority in other cases. Are
March 26, 2011
From Guest Blogger, the Honorable Barry W. Knobel The South Carolina Court of Appeals filed what I consider to be an important unpublished family court opinion which,
Not publishing opinions to save the trial court embarrassment
June 22, 2010
I have been a past critic of the South Carolina Court of Appeals’ failure to publish opinions that do not meet the criteria of S.C.
The link between animal cruelty and domestic violence
June 15, 2010
When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in
The culture’s misconceptions about condonation
March 3, 2010
Condonation (a legal term meaning “conditional forgiveness”) is a powerful defense to a fault divorce in South Carolina. If proven, condonation revives an alimony claim
More dang unpublished opinions
October 14, 2009
A few weeks ago, I complained about the South Carolina appellate courts issuing uncitable, unpublished opinions from cases that were not decided in a summary
The problematic jurisprudence of uncitable appellate opinions in the internet era
September 18, 2009
Why should appellate courts be able to overrule or alter the decisions of lower courts? Why should they have the authority to make important and
