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Redistricting is Right Around the Corner

Learn How The Maps Are Drawn From Leading Election Attorneys and Census Experts

Redistricting Seminar Agenda

Friday, September 17

Saluda Building

101 Executive Dr.  #150

Columbia, SC

10:00am – 11:00am Why Redistricting Matters and Who Draws the Lines

11:00am – 12:00pm Redistricting Law 101- Fundamentals

12:00pm – 1:00pm Redistricting Law 501- New Cases and What They Mean to You

Lunch Provided

1:00pm – 2:00pm Population Trends- 2010 Census

Faculty:

Bobby Bowers, Director, Budget and Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics

Butch Bowers, Esquire

M. Todd Carroll, Esquire

Kevin A. Hall, Esquire

Doris Jones, U.S. Census Bureau

Dale Oldham, Redistricting Counsel, Republican National Committee

Dr. John Ruoff, Expert for ACLU Voting Rights Protect

Charles L.A. Terreni, Esquire

Space Limited- RSVP now to Debbie.johnson@hallbowers.com

Bowers Speaks At Republican Lawyer’s Association Meeting

On August 13-14, 2010, Butch Bowers joined a nationally-recognized panel of election law experts as a speaker at the Republican National Lawyer’s Association 2010 National Election Law Seminar in Grand Rapids, MI.

Bowers, former Special Counsel for Voting Matters at the Department of Justice, was invited to speak on ethical issues for lawyers in representing candidates and campaigns. Over 200 attorneys from around the country attended the event, which has established itself as the preeminent election law seminar for Republican lawyers in the country and featured members of Congress, representatives from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the Republican National Committee.

Kevin Hall on “Pub Politics”

District 2 City Council Election

Hall & Bowers successfully reversed a lower court’s injunction in Denman v. City of Columbia, 691 S.E.2d 465 (S.C. 2010), which had enjoined an election for a representative seat in a majority-minority district on the Columbia City Council.

S.C. high court sets April 6 election date

Supreme Court Surprise

McMaster opinion favors April 6 election

Judge to rule Monday if election can proceed Tuesday; feds could act earlier

USC Law Review

The Firm’s attorneys were invited to participate in a panel discussion for the University of South Carolina Law Review’s 2009 Symposium “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: Its Tradition, Its Jurisprudence, and Its Future,” and were pleased to publish an accompanying article with the Law Review that discussed the Fourth Circuit’s jurisprudence regarding the government-speech doctrine’s evolving role under the First Amendment. read more

RNC amicus brief

Hall & Bowers served as counsel to Amicus Curiae in Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee, Case No. 09-4615 (3rd Cir. 2010), a voting rights case in which Hall & Bowers prepared the amicus brief on behalf of several former DOJ voting officials in support of the RNC

Click here to read the brief

Bluffton Town Council election

Our Firm’s attorneys successfully appealed an adverse ruling of the South Carolina State Election Commission to the South Carolina Supreme Court in In Re: November 4, 2008 Bluffton Town Council Election: Hamilton v. Fulgham, et al., 686 S.E.2d 683 (S.C. 2009). This case conclusively establishes that under South Carolina law, the proper appellate venue for any petitioner seeking review of a county election board’s decision made pursuant to a transfer of authority from a municipality is the circuit court, not the State Election Commission.

Commission Couldn’t decide election result

Bluffton Town Council Election: Hamilton v. Fulgham, et al., 686 S.E.2d 683 (S.C. 2009)

Gov. Sanford Impeachment

Hall & Bowers represented Governor Mark Sanford in an impeachment matter in 2009-10, successfully defending the Governor against impeachment before the South Carolina House of Representatives Judiciary Committee while also providing a legal defense that helped the Governor avoid both civil liability before the State Ethics Commission and criminal liability before the State Attorney General’s Office.

The State: THE CASE AGAINST SANFORD IMPEACHMENT HEARING

The State: Panel’s decision a boon for Sanford

How Sandford Avoided Impeachement

Nation & World: A TIMID IMPEACHMENT

The State: Two partners leave Nelson Mullins