Larry C. Marchant Jr.

02/03/2025

A little humor to start off the week....

10/09/2019

The great standard South Carolina beat our neighbors Georgia and North Carolina according to this chart.

The bar exam, perhaps the most gruesome testing experience that western society has yet concocted, is a two-day ordeal that determines who gets to be a lawyer. It’s so miserable, in fact, that you could be excused for changing your whole future life course just to take the test somewhere that it i...

10/09/2019

Well well no more logic games.

The LSAT will be forever changed thanks to this landmark settlement.

06/28/2019

Although 33 states allow you to take a t**e for medical use and 10 have allowed for recreational use, Ma*****na is still a Schedule 1 drug and therefore ma*****na possession can be a conditional bar for becoming a US Citizen.

By MELISSA AZALLION The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently issued policy guidance in its policy manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including mar…

06/25/2019

Fresh of the press

Golf legend Tiger Woods is no longer the target of a wrongful death lawsuit by the estate of a man who died in a crash after reportedly drinking at a Jupiter restaurant that bears Woods' name.

10/11/2018

(The) Columbia Oktoberfest Is Here

10/04/2018

From the State Newspaper: Grand Jury says NO BILL.

A clerk at the Obama gas station on Farrow Road in Columbia SC was accused of shooting a customer, but charges were dropped, his lawyer says. Attorney Larry Marchant planned to argue a stand-your-ground defense.

01/26/2018

Humm...

A driver who was arrested for alleged drunken driving on Saturday told police he wasn’t driving because his car was on autopilot.

10/10/2017

ATTENTION: Recall Organic Cereal Lovers

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- General Mills is voluntarily recalling two days of production of Cascadian...

09/28/2017

Just in case my friends in the Restaurant and Bar business missed it. SC General Assembly passed and Governor signed law that requires at least 1 million liability Insurance or you lose your liquor license.

SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Title 61 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

“Section 61 2 145. (A) In addition to all other requirements, a person licensed or permitted to sell alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption, which remains open after five o’clock p.m. to sell alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption, is required to maintain a liquor liability insurance policy or a general liability insurance policy with a liquor liability endorsement for a total coverage of at least one million dollars during the period of the biennial permit or license. Failure to maintain this coverage constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of the permit or license.
(A45, R66, S116)

This is not the entire bill. If you are interested you can go to statehouse.org and search legislative bills Senate Bill 116