SC Supreme Court Opinion Bot

This bot will tweet opinions and orders as soon as the SC Supreme Court releases them (Not affiliated with SC Judiciary)

Monitors some high profile cases

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if you've got a tip about a case / anything related to the SC judicial system or if this bot, @SCDocketUpdates, or https://t.co/W4BAHhbmd8 seems broken please email [email protected] and I'll get back to you!

feature requests are welcome too!

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Order: 2026-06-03-01: In the Matter of Jeanette Marie Samra-Arteaga, Respondent. https://t.co/NXvbJsfjYh

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(to be submitted without oral argument) Jason Black v. State https://t.co/Og2h37H2Tv

This is an appeal of a Court of Appeals denial to rehear a matter which resulted in the reversal of a post conviction court's grant of new trial.

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SC Public Interest Foundation v. Oconee County https://t.co/rzxp9f1Fm3

This is a complex appeal and cross appeal of an circuit court order regarding a $25 million bond to build a wastewater system. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going to try to summarize or explain this one.

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The questions are:
Does information that is publicly available constitute "identifying information"
under the statute's subsection (A)(2)?

If information is publicly available, can a person "knowingly disclose" that
information for purposes of the statute subsection (C)?

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ACLU SC v Alan Wilson et al. https://t.co/7Ery97sRoB

This is certified question case from the federal district court around what is commonly known as the "shield statute" (S.C. Code Ann. § 24-3-580).

I've included the relevant subsections here.

(continued in next tweet)

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Bobby Blakney v. City of Rock Hill https://t.co/RXDl60DAil

This case will review whether Rock Hill's Rule 59(e) SCRCP motion was untimely according to Rule 203(b)(1) SCACR.

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The SC supreme court will consider four cases in June. 3 will have oral argument on June 16. One will be considered on the briefs. Summaries of each case below (not generated by AI). Dockets with all briefs are also linked.

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On May 20, Myra Cosby filed motions to intervene for review of the protective order and to modify to the protective order. The protective order is from January 24, 2024. I've uploaded the document here for those interested

https://t.co/Vtj7mvtfh0

#murdaugh

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But it's 2026–if a document is public, there's no reason to make readers hunt for it.

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PSA: If your source is a public document, you should link it! If the system the document is in doesn't easily allow linking, you can use @documentcloud. Sites like Scribd require users to create an account to see documents uploaded there so you should avoid them.

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Remittitur has been sent in The State v Alex Murdaugh.

Docket: https://t.co/Ej6LFfZfn9

Remittitur: https://t.co/2oIfWjYsf9

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Opinion: The State v. Richard Alexander Murdaugh: Concluding former Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill's improper external influence on the jury deprived Richard Alexander Murdaugh of his right to...
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particularly proud of this because the table on the left will allow people to get a preview of the advance sheets before they are published

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Each court also has its own dashboard with dispositional & non dispositional decisions / grant / denial orders since the most recent Wednesday and a another table of pending decisions and argument date
Supreme Court: https://t.co/C2mrtVh7OU
COA: https://t.co/xT4vRdXY0D

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particularly proud of this because the table on the left will allow people to get a preview of the advance sheets before they are published

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Each court also has its own dashboard with dispositional & non dispositional decisions / grant / denial orders since the most recent Wednesday and a another table of pending decisions and argument date
Supreme Court: https://t.co/C2mrtVh7OU
COA: https://t.co/xT4vRdXY0D

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Of course every filing will also link to the relevant case dockets and where available the documents related to the filing.

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made some changes and now the home page is a little more useful.
Shows the latest filings for both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals immediately when navigating to the home page. A new page is linked in this thread as well.
https://t.co/yrTeNHEALO

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it's worth noting now each day will have a link like this which links to both the case docket and the actual documents associated with each filing.

https://t.co/4xXYMVcbed

This is something I wanted to do originally with @SCDocketUpdates and just never got around around to it.

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Each court also has its own dashboard with dispositional & non dispositional decisions / grant / denial orders since the most recent Wednesday and a another table of pending decisions and argument date
Supreme Court: https://t.co/C2mrtVh7OU
COA: https://t.co/xT4vRdXY0D

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@ValeskiLucy Based off the spreadsheet I looked at from @scvotes that number for the statewide primary was 10,495 for May 29, 2024

can be found here under 2024 Historical Absentee and Early Voting Reports -> Statewide Primaries – Early Voting Ballots Cast by County
https://t.co/hJtuJA2p8x

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New filings in SC Supreme Court cases on May 27, 2026 https://t.co/T3WHaHgmpO