court records
17 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- June 16, 2026 · Dispatch
Court appoints former Judge Kristi Harrington as third-party neutral to sort the 11,000+ disputed files in Mace's Google Drive
On June 16, 2026, Judge Donald B. Hocker appointed Kristi Harrington, a Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge, to serve as a 'third-party neutral' in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2025-CP-10-2671), one of the cluster of cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and her former fiance, Patrick Bryant. Harrington's task is to review the more than 11,000 electronic files in what the court calls 'Mace's Google Drive,' files that both Mace and Bryant claim to own, and decide which, if any, must be turned over in discovery. The court split her fees between the two camps, warned the volume could make the process 'very cost-prohibitive,' and entered the order over Mace's objection. The order makes no finding on privilege, admissibility, ownership, or wrongdoing; the underlying allegations remain contested and unproven.
- June 8, 2026 · Dispatch
Gretchen Carlson, who helped write the Speak Out Act, files a sworn declaration backing Alexis Berg
On June 8, 2026, Alexis Berg's counsel filed a reply brief in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671) arguing that the federal Speak Out Act makes the non-disparagement clause ADW is suing on judicially unenforceable, because the dispute before the court involves sexual-assault allegations. Attached was a sworn declaration from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose 2016 case helped inspire the Act, who states she has met with Berg and that 'this is exactly the situation we fought to address,' and offers to testify. ADW argues the Act does not apply. The motion is undecided; the underlying allegations are contested and denied.
- December 22, 2025 · Dispatch
Bryant's counsel to Berg's attorney: 'Describing in detail what I contend is confidential before the Order is in place would defeat the very purpose of having a confidentiality order'
On December 22, 2025, Patrick Bryant's attorneys at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani filed a seven-page opposition to Berg's motion for a blanket confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant, Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124. The brief argues that the photographs and recordings Berg now seeks to seal were already made public by Rep. Nancy Mace, with Berg's consent, during Mace's February and May 2025 congressional speeches. Bryant's counsel agrees that Berg's medical and therapy records should be confidential, but opposes a blanket designation. Attached as Exhibit A is a 23-page compilation of counsel emails documenting a six-week dispute over what, if anything, required protection. All allegations in the underlying litigation are disputed and contested; Bryant denies the claims against him; Berg, Mace, and all named parties deny Bryant's allegations; no matter has been adjudicated.
- June 27, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace's own motion shows she signed a quitclaim deed to her ex-fiancé on Feb. 13, 2025, three days after accusing him of crimes on the House floor
Mace's June 27, 2025 motion to enforce her settlement with Brendan (Patrick) Bryant documents that she executed a quitclaim deed transferring the beach house to him on Feb. 13, 2025, days after her Feb. 10 floor speech, while their property settlement was still being carried out.
- May 12, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace's own defamation complaint puts her House-floor accusations, and the men's furious replies, into the public record
Suing Eric Bowman for defamation on May 12, 2025, Mace's complaint confirms she 'identified four individuals' from the House floor and reproduces, verbatim, the very accusations she calls false, including claims she steered VA contracts and 'destroy[ed] innocent men with zero evidence, zero charges.'
- April 2, 2024 · Dispatch
Ten months before accusing him from the House floor, Mace sued her ex-fiancé to split the beach house they owned together
On April 2, 2024, Mace filed a partition action against Brendan (Patrick) Bryant to divide or sell a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house. Her own complaint records that she and the man she would later accuse of crimes each held 'an undivided one half' interest in the property.
Incidents
Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther
In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.
February 10, 2025 · Incident
Court filings
Mace Federal Removal (Berg v. Bryant → D.S.C.)
Rep. Nancy Mace's pro se removal of Berg v. Bryant to federal court, filed January 29, 2026; assigned Case No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC in the District of South Carolina.
January 29, 2026 · Case
House Ethics Committee Investigation of Rep. Nancy Mace (OCC Review 25-5681)
The Office of Congressional Conduct voted 6-0 to refer Rep. Nancy Mace to the House Committee on Ethics, finding substantial reason to believe she engaged in improper reimbursement practices; the Committee is continuing its review and has made no finding of a violation.
December 1, 2025 · Case
Berg v. Bryant (and Bryant's Third-Party Complaint against Mace)
Civil suit filed May 29, 2025 by Alexis Berg against Patrick Bryant and others; Bryant impleaded Rep. Nancy Mace as Third-Party Defendant. The public docket includes a November 17, 2025 order ending pseudonym use, a gag order, and a temporary restraining order.
May 29, 2025 · Case
Mace v. Bowman
Defamation suit filed May 12, 2025 by Rep. Nancy Mace against Eric Bowman over posts on X; Bowman appears pro se and has moved to dismiss.
May 12, 2025 · Case
Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg
Civil suit filed by Assignment Desk Works, LLC, a company tied to Patrick Bryant, against his former employee Alexis Berg to enforce a non-disparagement clause from a 2019 wage settlement. Rep. Nancy Mace is not a party, but she inserted herself as a 'Proposed Intervenor' to recover materials, including a recorded 2024 phone call, that she had voluntarily given Berg's lawyer, then tried to claw back. The court has repeatedly declined the relief she sought: already-produced materials stay in the record, Berg may keep using them, and the disputed files go to a neutral, all entered over Mace's objection.
May 7, 2025 · Case
Mace v. Bryant
Action for partition filed April 2, 2024 by Rep. Nancy Mace against Patrick Bryant over a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house; settled at mediation May 28, 2024; Mace moved to enforce the settlement in 2025.
April 2, 2024 · Case
Wiki & people
Kristi Harrington
Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge (Ninth Judicial Circuit, 2008-2018), now a Supreme Court certified mediator and arbitrator, appointed by Judge Donald B. Hocker on June 16, 2026 to serve as the third-party neutral over the 11,000+ disputed electronic files in ADW v. Berg.
June 16, 2026 · Wiki
Judge Donald B. Hocker
South Carolina Circuit Court judge specially assigned by order of the Supreme Court of South Carolina to preside over the entire cluster of Charleston County cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and Patrick Bryant, including Berg v. Bryant (Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124).
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Nancy Mace's Lawyers: A Timeline of Counsel
A timeline of the attorneys and firms who have represented Rep. Nancy Mace across her cluster of South Carolina and federal lawsuits since 2023, each representation shown as a term of service, from the day counsel appeared to the day they withdrew, through her brief turn to representing herself pro se in January 2026 and her return to retained counsel, a national firm with pro hac vice co-counsel, in the Assignment Desk Works v. Berg matter in the spring of 2026. Office contact information for each firm is included.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Litigation Overview & Court-Filing Index
A neutral, primary-source index of the South Carolina suits Nancy Mace has filed as plaintiff, a defamation case and a property case, with the public docket of each and links to the dispatches that quote the filings.
June 9, 2026 · Wiki