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South Carolina law firm is turning 100, still going strong
On this Might 2022 photograph, Invoice Harvey III stands subsequent to a portray of his grandfather, W. Brantley Harvey Sr., who based the Harvey and Battey legislation agency in Beaufort, S.C., in 1922, on the agency’s workplaces on Craven Avenue. The agency turns 100 this month. (Karl Puckett/The Beaufort Gazette through AP)
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BEAUFORT, S.C.
The Beaufort legislation agency of Harvey and Battey — whose attorneys have served as among the main political figures in Beaufort County and the state — turns 100 years previous this month.
That makes it the oldest legislation agency in Beaufort County, mentioned Invoice Harvey III, the grandson of the founder, and one of many oldest in South Carolina.
Nonetheless, the century-old agency, housed in a nondescript constructing on Craven Avenue in Beaufort’s historic downtown, is just not gazing within the rear-view mirror, Harvey provides. It’s utilizing the milestone as a springboard for future growth.
“Typically, once you consider one thing that’s as previous as 100 years, you consider it as dying — previous and dying,” Harvey advised The Beaufort Gazette and Island Packet. “We aren’t. Now we have a really thrilling, very lively group of youthful attorneys.”
W. Brantley Harvey Sr. based Harvey and Battey in 1922.
Harvey III, Harvey Sr.’s grandson and the third technology of Harveys within the agency, credit “dedication to integrity” and the agency’s concentrate on public service, versus chasing the “almighty greenback,” for Harvey-Battey’s longevity.
“Integrity is tough to take care of, and you may lose it in a short time,” Harvey III mentioned. “Type of like repute. You solely have one integrity, and it’s very onerous to take care of with a multi-employee group.”
Alex Murdaugh, 53, who labored for an additional 100-plus-year-old South Carolina agency, is a living proof in how shortly authorized reputations will be misplaced.
PMPED, a Hampton-based agency began in 1910 by Randolph Murdaugh Sr., Murdaugh’s grandfather, modified its identify to Parker Legislation Group within the wake of Alex Murdaugh’s alleged scheme to steal $8.4 million from purchasers, which has led to fifteen indictments containing 79 expenses.
State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, who has been with Harvey-Battey for 37 years, famous that W. Brantley Harvey Sr. and Randolph Murdaugh Sr. had been second cousins.
Whereas Harvey Sr. moved to Beaufort and entered into public life and repair, mentioned Davis, Murdaugh stayed in Hampton County and developed a strong legislation agency.
“It’s sort of fascinating that two cousins sort of went on totally different paths,” Davis mentioned.
ACTIVE IN PUBLIC SERVICE
Harvey Sr. died in 1981.
W. Brantley Harvey Jr., his son and Invoice Harvey III’s father, joined the agency in 1955. He was born in Walterboro and grew up on The Level in Beaufort. He died in 2018.
Colden R. Battey Jr. joined the agency in 1963. He’s retired however nonetheless spends a number of hours within the workplace every day.
The agency’s attorneys have been lively in public service and politics from the start.
Harvey Sr. was elected to the South Carolina Home of Representatives in 1924, simply two years after he based the agency, and once more 1926, earlier than becoming a member of the South Carolina Senate in 1928. He represented Beaufort County for twenty-four years till 1952. He was the principal creator of the South Carolina Staff’ Compensation Act.
Harvey Jr. was elected to the Home in 1958 and served 16 years till 1974. He served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1978. And he performed a significant function in buying the Beaufort campus of the College of South Carolina and in establishing the Technical School of the Lowcountry as one of many state’s 16 technical faculties.
Each had been Democrats.
“Now we have not affirmatively promoted public service,” Harvey III mentioned, “however I believe it’s been a trademark of our longevity.”
‘PROUD OF THE FIRM’
Political involvement continues at the moment.
Davis, the longtime Harvey-Battey lawyer and Republican state senator, mentioned Harvey Jr. was a mentor. He acquired concerned with public service due to the instance the elder lawyer set.
“We each had a ardour for shielding the atmosphere,” says Davis of Harvey Jr. “We each cared about schooling. We had been each very frugal about cash.”
And virtually 100 years after Harvey Sr. first was elected to the Senate, Davis represents that very same district.
“I’m actually happy with the agency,” Davis mentioned. “I’m happy with the historical past of public service we have now.”
For his half, Harvey III has served as the town lawyer for the Metropolis of Beaufort for the previous 35 years. He appears at that place as a “quasi-public service,” and he takes delight in having helped form the town’s insurance policies and progress in that function.
Colden Battey Jr. assumed extra accountability in operating the agency when Harvey Jr. was pursuing his political profession. However Battey additionally was concerned in public service domestically, serving as chairman of the Beaufort County Council for eight years. And he was on the board of the Beaufort Jasper Increased Training Fee for 17 years.
FIRM’S CASES
At present, the agency has eight attorneys, and Harvey III mentioned it’s the one full-service legislation agency in Beaufort, practising private harm, actual property, property and household legislation amongst different specialties.
“There are particular issues we don’t do,” he mentioned, “however there’s not many.”
The agency just lately resolved a multi-million-dollar private harm case wherein an 83-year-old overseas nationwide was struck by a automotive in Charleston, Harvey III mentioned. A part of the case has been settled for $3 million, whereas attorneys proceed to work on the remaining settlement.
Harvey III is most happy with a $39.4 million settlement from a 2014 nationwide class-action lawsuit involving lively responsibility service members who had been overcharged on mortgage rates of interest by JP Morgan Chase Financial institution. The agency represented Marine Corps Capt. Jonathon Rowles, the lead plaintiff, who alleged the financial institution violated the Servicemembers’ Civil Reduction Act. That legislation was enacted in 1942 to guard deployed members of the navy from monetary duress whereas on lively responsibility.
“We resolved that case very favorably for members of the navy,” Harvey III mentioned.
The agency is hiring new attorneys, he mentioned. And it’s within the means of opening an workplace in Okatie.
A ride at a historic Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, amusement park turned into a nightmare that left a man paralyzed, a North Carolina couple alleges in a lawsuit.
The couple, identified as Gangia Adhikari and husband Kul Sannyashi, said they visited the Family Kingdom Amusement Park July 23, 2021, and rode the wooden Swamp Fox Roller Coaster.
“While riding the roller coaster as a result of the negligence, carelessness, recklessness, willfulness and wantonness of the Defendants, Plaintiff’s husband suffered an acute injury to his spinal cord which caused quadriplegia,” the lawsuit, filed June 20, alleges.
MINNESOTA AMUSEMENT PARK STAYS OPEN WHILE CLOSING POPULAR RIDE AFTER UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING
Family Kingdom, a seaside amusement park in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The couple alleged the coaster was “extremely dangerous, more so than a typical roller coaster.”
The lawsuit said Family Kingdom Amusement Park “failed to adequately warn customers” of the dangers the roller coaster could present to riders.
The lawsuit also alleged the amusement park failed to take precautions to ensure the ride would not cause serious injuries to its users.
Attorney Morgan Martin told The Sun News Sannyashi is in “horrible condition.”
“The allegation is that he gets on [the roller coaster] fine and then gets off as a quadriplegic,” Martin told the outlet. “It’s such a sad, sad day for that young man, who is just in horrible condition.”
BEAR EUTHANIZED AFTER INJURING TENNESSEE THEME PARK CONCESSION STAND EMPLOYEE
Sannyashi claimed he had to undergo operations that required expensive medical treatment, hospitalization and intensive care.
A North Carolina man is reportedly paralyzed after riding the popular Swamp Fox roller coaster at Myrtle Beach’s Family Kingdom Amusement Park. (Family Kingdom)
The lawsuit claims he requires 24-hour nursing assistance and suffers from extreme pain, mental anguish and depression due to his permanent injuries.
According to the lawsuit, Adhikari is suing for loss of companionship, fellowship, aid, assistance, company and more.
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Mary Elle Marchant, River Bluff native, crowned as Miss South Carolina Teen 2024 – ABC Columbia
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COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization has crowned Miss River Bluff’s Teen, Mary Elle Marchant, as Miss South Carolina’s Teen 2024.
According to Gavin Smith with the organization, Marchant hails from Lexington, SC, and is an 18-year-old who recently graduated from River Bluff High School.
Performing a musical theatre dance to “I Hope I Get It” from “A Chorus Line to Life,” Marchant was a preliminary winner in the teen evening gown and teen talent award categories.
She received a $12,500 savings bond and will compete for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen.
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization also named four additional delegates as runners up in the 2024 Miss South Carolina’s Teen Competition:
First runner up: Miss Daniel Island’s Teen, Tess Ferm
Second runner up: Miss Columbia’s Teen, Le’Daviah Terry
Third runner up: Miss Greer High School’s Teen, Madison Harbin
Fourth runner up: Miss Greater Greer’s Teen, Lilykate Barbare
The Miss South Carolina 2024 competition will continue Saturday evening, beginning at 8 p.m.
Miss South Carolina 2024 will receive a $60,000 scholarship and will compete for the title of Miss America.
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Editorial: Long-awaited reform on how SC picks judges will help, but it doesn’t go far enough
The reform measure the Legislature sent to Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday won’t solve the multitudinous problems with the way South Carolina picks judges.
The governor still won’t have anywhere near as much say as the Legislature in selecting the members of the third branch of government.
And lawyer-legislators still will retain inordinate sway over the careers of judges they practice before — creating the appearance if not the reality of preferential treatment.
But the bill — more than a year in the making and far longer than that in the needing — provides a good first step to addressing real and perceived flaws that threaten public confidence in our judicial system. We urge Mr. McMaster to sign it.
For the first time, it allows the governor to appoint some members to the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which decides who legislators can elect or reelect to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Circuit and Family courts. Governors have never had any say in those elections, and they still won’t participate in the vote, but S.1046 lets the governor appoint four of the 12 commissioners.
House and Senate leaders will still pick the eight other members, and six of them have to be legislators; technically, the bill allows all eight to be legislators, which would ensure legislators’ continued majority on the panel, but if House or Senate leaders choose to interpret it that way, it will be a massive betrayal of the public trust.
Perhaps equally important, legislators will be limited to four consecutive years on the panel, and all but three current members will be expelled from the commission when the law takes effect in a year. Among those leaving will be House Democratic Leader Todd Rutherford, who has made himself the poster child for how lawyer-legislators can manipulate that position to their personal advantage. (Additionally, commissioners have to resign if a relative files to run for a judgeship.)
As long as the Legislature elects judges, the governor should appoint all the members of the screening panel; that’s the only way to create the balance of powers that is foundational to our nation’s system of governance. Barring that, lawyer-legislators should be prohibited from serving on the panel: One chance to influence who becomes a judge — when they vote in the election — is enough; that second opportunity is the root of most of the evil that South Carolina’s prosecutors have been complaining about for more than a year.
It’s worth noting that lawmakers agreed to give the governor some say on the commission at the very same moment they reduced the commission’s power: It still will be able to end the careers and the hopes of judges and would-be judges, but in most cases, it no longer will be able to nominate its favorites from among multiple qualified candidates. Now, instead of nominating a maximum of three candidates for each seat, the so-called cap will be six — which is more than the number of candidates in most contests — so if six candidates are found qualified, all six of them will stand for election.
The other smart reforms are a requirement that screening hearings be livestreamed and a related ban on candidates dropping out before the commission issues its report on their qualifications. Both are designed to stop the panel from pressuring candidates to drop out after screening by suggesting that the public will see unflattering material about them if they don’t.
As Upstate Solicitor Kevin Brackett tells us, “This is helpful, but some of the main structures that ensure legislative dominance are still in place and need to be addressed.” That means getting lawyer-legislators off the screening commission and, ideally, allowing the governor to appoint all 12 members. It’s not too soon to start working on that next round of reforms.
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