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State courts of South Carolina. South Carolina Supreme Court [1] South Carolina Court of Appeals [2] South Carolina Circuit Courts (16 circuits) [3] South Carolina Family Courts [4] South Carolina Probate Courts [5] South Carolina Magistrate Courts [6] South Carolina Municipal Courts [7] Federal courts located in South Carolina. United States ...
The Circuit Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in South Carolina. It is also a superior court, having limited appellate jurisdiction over appeals from the lower Probate Court, Magistrate's Court, and Municipal Court; and appeals from the Administrative Law Judge Division, which hears matters relating to state administrative ...
South Carolina is one of two states where the state legislature elects state court judges, including the justices on the state supreme court. [3] A ten-person committee (composed mostly of state legislators) called the Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC) winnows down the number of candidates to fill a judicial vacancy to three based on candidate qualifications.
South Carolina is joining 18 other states with all-white high courts, ... It showed Black people have a presence at every level of the state court system, even if sometimes Finney was invited to ...
By the time the new court was created, it took approximately three and a half years for an appeal from a trial court to be heard by the state's supreme court. [2] Finally, in November 1984, voters approved a constitutional amendment making the South Carolina Court of Appeals a constitutional court.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court will have one woman again. ... The last woman to serve on the state Supreme Court was Justice Kaye Hearn. She left the court in 2023 after reaching the mandatory ...
Beatty, the only Black justice on the court, will retire this summer after reaching the state’s mandatory retirement age of 72. The five-member Supreme Court had been all male since Kaye Hearn ...
State courts of Pennsylvania. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania [273] Superior Court of Pennsylvania (3 districts) [274] Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania [275] Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas (60 judicial districts) [276] Magisterial District Courts [277] Former colonial and state courts of Pennsylvania. Provincial Court (1684-1722)