Ervin Law Office

01/08/2021

Bad results, big bonuses for employees at results-challenged, government-run agency ...

11/19/2020

Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word “State” also refers to the District of Columbia and the word “Governor” al...

08/27/2020

As authorities increasingly recover untraceable “ghost guns” from crime scenes, Chicago and three other U.S. cities took aim in a federal complaint Wednesday at the government’s failure to crack down on build-it-yourself kits.

08/26/2020

Development of a saliva COVID-19 test might never have happened if not for the efforts of a spontaneous coalition of scientists in South Carolina and across the country who worked nearly nonstop and shared results and materials with one another in the weeks before and after the initial lockdown in M...

07/21/2020

This is a compelling article!

A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.

07/17/2020

Witnesses testifying in an upcoming criminal trial will be required to wear transparent face masks to keep the court in compliance with San Francisco’s public health directive, a state court judge ruled Thursday.

06/29/2020

Congratulations to a Florence native!

William Hubbard, a prominent South Carolina attorney and former president of the American Bar Association, has been named the new dean of the University of South Carolina’s School of Law, the state’s only public law school. He will officially begin his duties on Aug. 1.

06/01/2020

Prisons turn out to be a key place to study how coronavirus spreads and how immunity to it works.

05/29/2020

A two-month moratorium on new complaints in New York City has not caused major tort lawyers to pare back their workload.

05/28/2020

Hours ahead of an anticipated Wednesday night vote on a controversial surveillance law, bipartisan concerns now threaten to capsize reauthorization efforts that have been in the works for months.

05/26/2020

For many people leaving prison during the pandemic, closed DMVs mean closed doors.

05/20/2020

Executions have been effectively paused by the coronavirus since early March.