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Searching South Carolina Dockets

This guide serves as an introduction to accessing court records and linking to dockets from various levels of South Carolina Courts.

Overview

Much of the State Supreme Court and Court of Appeals information is combined on the South Carolina Judicial Branch's website. The information provided on this page is to help sort through and navigate the State's appellate courts decisions, opinions, rosters, and more.

South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals

The South Carolina Judicial Branch also provides the public with online access to  appellate court records through its Search Opinions. Interested parties can access records through this portal by performing name-based or case number-based searches.  The Search Opinions Portal allows the ability to search Supreme Court Opinions, Appellate Court Opinions, or both at the same time.

Court Orders can be searched via the State's Search Orders site.

The South Carolina Supreme Court also features Published Opinions and Unpublished Opinions Online.  The Court of Appeals does the same and the links to their opinions can be found here: Published Opinions and Unpublished Opinions.  These opinions can be sorted by year and date, some going back as far as 1997.

Advance sheets from the South Carolina Supreme Court dating back as far as 2000 can also be found online here.

Rosters for the Supreme Court and rosters for the Court of Appeals can also be found online and feature the name of the parties of an upcoming case, as well as brief descriptions of the issues to be heard.