Week in Review: The Battle for Accountability
Wins, losses and draws in the fight to force politicians, bureaucracies and institutions to do the right thing......
Toxic Justice
Supreme Court Battle Unfolding Against ‘Judicial Hellhole’ Backdrop
by Jenn Wood
Pending asbestos litigation and overlapping political interests are raising fresh questions about who influences South Carolina’s highest court......
Asbestos Docket on Trial at South Carolina Supreme Court
by Jenn Wood
Justices question jurisdiction, insurance claims, and whether South Carolina’s mass-tort machine was legally built at all....
Toxic Justice, Part 6: ‘Forever Litigation’
by Jenn Wood
South Carolina lawmakers didn’t just preserve a corrupt docket — they built its successor....
Toxic Justice: S.C. Supreme Court Sets Oral Argument In Asbestos Receivership Fight
by Jenn Wood
Justices to weigh the legality of a dubious receivership, foreign court rulings, and whether South Carolina courts overstepped their reach......
Toxic Justice: S.C. Supreme Court Steps in on Corrupt Asbestos Docket
by Jenn Wood
High court fast-tracks review of controversial receivership as questions mount over jurisdiction, secrecy, and judicial power...
S.C. Chief Justice: Judiciary ‘Under Attack’
by Will Folks
But... by whom?...
Toxic Justice, Part 5: The Asbestos Carveout
by Jenn Wood
State lawmakers promised to fix South Carolina’s broken civil-justice system — then wrote a law that kept their own asbestos network immune from reform....
Toxic Justice, Part 4: Courtroom Collusion
by Jenn Wood
A closed loop of power and influence......
Toxic Justice, Part 3: The Fishing Expeditions
by Jenn Wood
Decades-old insurance contracts have become the new gold mine in South Carolina’s asbestos racket......