( October 15, 2024, 8:20 AM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court left in place a discovery sanction and $3.12 million asbestos verdict, denying a certiorari petition asking it to weigh in on a wide range of issues from causation and intervening cause to the availability of punitive damages and whether a court properly penalized the defendant for its handling of lung tissue sample....