...when a chief justice has retired, the next in seniority steps forward unchallenged to fill the job. Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney Jr. announced his intended retirement 13 months before the date he chose. Justice Toal decided to go for the job...
...Circuit Judge Charles W. Whetstone Jr. has decided to return to private practice. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney Jr. accepted his resignation. Judge Whetstone said he will leave his post April 17 to join the Columbia law practice...
...Nearly half a century after becoming a lawyer in a state with separate and often unwritten laws for his race, Ernest A. Finney Jr. is retiring this week as chief justice of South Carolina's Supreme Court. On Thursday, his 69th birthday...